Doping scandal athletics chief Lamine Diack quits Olympics role

Former world athletics president Lamine Diack has resigned as honorary member of the International Olympic Committee after coming under formal investigation for suspected corruption and money-laundering. The 82-year-old, who was suspended by the IOC hours earlier, is alleged to have received more than one million euros ($1.07 million) in bribes in 2011 to cover up positive doping tests of Russian athletes. His resignation from the Olympic body comes two days after the publication of a World Anti-Doping Agency independent commission report on allegations of widespread corruption and collusion by Russian officials, including state security services, to cover up results of drug tests, destroy samples and intimidate laboratory staff. Diack was a powerful figure within the IOC as he controlled the flagship sport of the Olympic Games for more than 15 years. Also on Tuesday, he resigned as president of the charitable International Athletics Foundation.

The executive board decided this afternoon to confirm the proposal of the IOC ethics commission to provisionally suspend Mr. Lamine Diack, the former president of IAAF, from his honorary membership of the IOC.

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