adminLONDON. – Former Namibian sprinter and IAAF Council member Frankie Fredericks has been provisionally suspended from athletics pending an investigation into a potential ethics violation, the sport’s governing body said yesterday.
Fredericks is being investigated by the Athletics Integrity Unit over payments he received from Papa Massata Diack, the son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack, on the day Rio won the vote to host the 2016 Olympics.
Earlier this year Fredericks, an International Olympic Committee member, stepped down as head of the team evaluating bids to host the 2024 Olympics and has also removed himself from the IAAF taskforce investigating doping allegations in Russia, after the corruption allegations surfaced in Le Monde newspaper.
But in a written judgement, the Chairman of the IAAF Disciplinary Tribunal Michael J Beloff rejected Fredericks’ offer to “use his best judgment” on whether or not to attend future council meetings. – Reuters.
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