Lamine Diack

during the IAAF World Athletics Gala at the Sporting Club on November 25, 2007 in Monte Carlo,Monaco.
Photo: Michael Steele
© 2007 Getty Images

The AFP news agency reports that Lamine Diack, the former President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) from 1999–2015 died at his home in Senegal on 2 December, aged 88.

Diack was also a member of the IOC from 1999–2013 but was last year convicted of bribery and corruption in a French court which resulted in a half-million euros fine and a four-year prison sentence of which two years were suspended. The court found that Diack had taken millions of dollars in bribes to supress positive drug tests recorded by Russian athletes so that they could compete in the London Olympic Games in 2012 and the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow.

After payment of bail by a Senegalese football club of which he was President Diack was allowed to return to Senegal on condition that he continue to respond to the court in further enquiries concerning corruption in the awarding of the rights to host the 2016 (Rio de Janeiro) and Tokyo (2020) Olympic Games.