Britain’s Sebastian Coe beat Sergey Bubka in the election and all set to become the new President of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Coe will replace Lamine Diack as the Chief of the world athletics body. Coe received 115 voted and his opponent Sergey Bubka received 92 votes.
After a series of doping controversies rocked the build-up to the August 22-30 world championships in Beijing, the Briton said he and his new team would be “vigilant” in their crusade against cheats. Coe’s first job as IAAF president will be to defend athletics from stinging allegations of widespread doping which threaten to cast a dark cloud over the world championships which kick off on Saturday in Beijing. The credibility of both athletics and the IAAF has come under repeated attack in recent weeks, after British and German media said a leaked database of 12,000 tests had revealed “extraordinary” levels of doping.
- WADA stands for World Anti-Doping Agency.
- It was set up on November 10, 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland via a collective initiative led by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
- Since 2002, the organization’s headquarters have been located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- WADA is responsible for the World Anti-Doping Code, adopted by more than 600 sports organizations, including international sports federations.
- Sir Craig Reedie is the current President of WADA.
