Diack was convicted of a
Russian doping cover-up in 2020Senegalese official was head of the IAAF for 16 yearsThe disgraced former head of global athletics, Lamine Diack, who was convicted last year of running a clique that covered up Russian doping in exchange for €3.2m (£2.7m) worth of bribes, has died at the age of 88.
Diack, one of the most powerful figures in world sport for nearly two decades, was also named in a Brazilian court of being paid $2m in exchange for up to nine votes that helped Rio de Janeiro win the right to stage the 2016 Olympic Games.