Tag: IAAF President Lamine Diack

  • IAAF Council Meeting, Dakar, 14 April

    Dakar, Apr 15, 2014: The IAAF Council is meeting for the third time in its history in Dakar, Senegal, with IAAF President Lamine Diack taking the opportunity to say farewell to his fellow Council Members in his home city on Monday (14). “It is a source of great pride and satisfaction for me to be…

  • Portland 2016 and Birmingham 2018

    Monaco – Nov 15, 2013: Portland 2016 and Birmingham 2018, The IAAF Council chaired by President Lamine Diack today met in the Fairmont Hotel, Monaco, for the second and final day of its traditional autumnal session in Monaco. Dominating today’s meeting were the bid presentations by the potential hosts for three IAAF World Athletics Series (WAS)…

  • The World Anti-Doping Conference

    Johannesburg – South Africa, Nov 13, 2013: Abby Hoffman, an IAAF Council Member and a Member of the IAAF’s Medical and Anti-Doping Commission, delivered a strong statement about the IAAF view of the new WADA Code to the 2013 World Conference on Doping in Sport organised by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in Johannesburg on…

  • Bulgaria, Peru and now Panama lead the way

    Bulgaria, Peru and now Panama lead the way

    Monaco – May 22, 2013: Bulgaria, Over 120 nations of the 212 which make up the membership of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have now implemented IAAF / Nestlé Kids’ Athletics, the flagship project of the IAAF School / Youth programme. Created in 2005, and now one of the biggest grassroots development programmes…