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Lamine Diack 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships Daegu 2011 - Day Nine
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Pistorius is a star just by starting at worlds

By dcx on | From washingtonexaminer.com
RAF CASERT AP Sports Writer DAEGU, South Korea He is a poster boy in Britain and one of the few athletes that locals in Daegu can name ahead of Saturday's opening day at the world championships. And he has the catchiest of nicknames. Like Usain "Lightning" Bolt, Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius is a star in athletics, but not because of his outstanding performances while sweeping the sprints at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. When the double-amputee...Read Full Story

IAAF makes donation to Japan for disaster relief

By dcx on | From washingtonexaminer.com
The Associated Press The Associated Press DAEGU, South Korea The IAAF has donated $250,000 to Japan to assist the country in rebuilding from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The IAAF says President Lamine Diack presented Japan Athletics Association President Yohei Kono with a check Monday. Diack was in Tokyo only a few days after the disaster and says he was moved by the resilience of the Japanese people. Diack says "what I saw was a lesson for...Read Full Story

IAAF says Doha can bid for September worlds

By dcx on | From washingtonexaminer.com
The Associated Press The Associated Press DAEGU, South Korea Track and field's governing body says the Qatari capital of Doha can bid for the 2017 world championships with a late September date to avoid the summer desert heat. IAAF President Lamine Diack adds that Barcelona, Spain, had decided at the last moment to drop out of the bid process. That leaves Doha and London as the only candidates. London announced last month it will make a bid led by...Read Full Story

Diack confirmed as IAAF president

By dcx on | From washingtonexaminer.com
The Associated Press The Associated Press DAEGU, South Korea Senegal's Lamine Diack has been elected unopposed to a new term as president of the IAAF, the world governing body for athletics. With 200 federations voting, the 78-year-old Diack received 173 'yes' votes and 27 "no" votes. The IAAF later annulled a vote for the vice presidency panel because of a technical problem with the electronic voting system, and scheduled a re-vote for later Wednesday...Read Full Story

Diack: Africa can host World Athletics Championships soon

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(CNN) -- Africa is ready to host the World Athletics Championships for the first time, the sport's president Lamine Diack told CNN.Read Full Story
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IAAF and CISM sign Convention of Collaboration
At a meeting in Monaco, IAAF President Lamine Diack and CISM President and IAAF Council Member Hamad Kalkaba Malboum signed a four-year Convention of Collaboration whose goals include, among others, the promotion and development of athletics in the ...  
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Past Presidents of the IAAF
Aside the present incumbent Lamine Diack, since the IAAF was founded in 1912 only four other Presidents have been elected by Congress. Born in Morlanda on November 21, 1870, Edström was educated in Gothenburg and then Zurich, Switzerland. An engineer by ...  
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IAAF Centenary celebrations begin
“The commemoration of that day, with the issuing of a special postage stamp in Monaco, will be at the heart of a year-long series of events and initiatives to mark this historic moment for Athletics,” said IAAF President Lamine Diack.  
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IAAF Centenary celebration begins
“The commemoration of that day, with the issuing of a special postage stamp in Monaco, will be at the heart of a year-long series of events and initiatives to mark this historic moment for Athletics,” said IAAF President Lamine Diack. “The World ...  
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Sergey Bubka elected as IAAF vice president after controversial re-vote at...
“No conspiracy theory is too implausible,” the delegate added. After Lamine Diack was returned unopposed as the IAAF president at the age of 78, the elections for other IAAF positions descended into chaos when Bubka, the Ukrainian former pole vault ...  
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