London - IAAF President Sebastian Coe is back under scrutiny regarding the extent of his knowledge of a corruption scandal in track and field, following fresh evidence released by British legislators.
Coe told a British parliamentary committee in
December 2015 that he was not aware of specific allegations of
corruption in
relation to a
Russian doping case that broke in December 2014, when he was
serving as vice-president of the sport’s governing body.
However, an e-mail provided to the committee by Coe and published yesterday refers to him telling Michael Beloff, chairman of the IAAF Ethics Commission, in August 2014, that he had “been made aware of the allegations” after receiving copied documentation.
In a letter to the chairman of the parliamentary committee, also published yesterday, Coe said there was “no discrepancy” in his
accounts and that there were “no grounds for
suggesting that I misled the committee in any way in December 2015”.
Coe, elected as IAAF president in August 2015, was asked this month to appear for a second time before legislators after they heard evidence from Dave Bedford, former race director of the London Marathon, who said he called and e-mailed Coe in August 2014 to warn him about the scandal.