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IAAF

International Association of Athletics Federations(eng. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) , in Russian, the abbreviation is usually used IAAF) is the world governing body in athletics.

The IAAF is established for an unlimited period of time with the legal status of an association in accordance with the laws of Monaco.

Currently, there are 212 countries in the IAAF (4 countries in more than FIFA, and 20 representatives in more than the UN). In the year, the headquarters of the organization was located in Monaco, where it is located to this day. President - Lamine Diak (Senegal)

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The elections were held in Beijing on the eve of the World Cup opening here on August 22. The 50th IAAF Congress was attended by representatives from 207 countries. They were to determine who would lead the world athletics after 16 years of reign by the Senegalese Lamin Diak. 115 delegates voted for Coe, unexpectedly many for Bubka - 92. Coe became only the sixth president of the second most powerful sports federation after FIFA. Usually people come to the IAAF seriously and for a long time.

Yes, there were only two candidates. Briton Coe - two-time champion Olympic Games in the run of 1500 meters, after sporting achievements made a good political career. He was elected to parliament from the Conservatives, which he is in his views. Received the title of Sir, and then Lord. He became the ideological inspirer and president of the Organizing Committee of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which, as the British themselves believe, was impeccable.

Sergei Bubka does not need our special introduction. Multiple champion and the world record holder in pole vaulting, he also achieved a lot in the new Ukraine. A successful businessman, a well-known sports leader. I am afraid, in the difficult conditions of the current political situation, to let Sergei Nazarevich down with unnecessary compliments. I will only say that in the present, far from the best period of relations between our two states, he has retained both sobriety of mind and respect for the country for which he spoke so successfully in his best years. We communicate, find a common language, keep in touch.

Coe, with whom I have worked for many years on the IAAF press commission, is a person of a somewhat different kind. A diplomat who sometimes changes his mind in order to achieve his goal. The character is polite, intelligent, but somewhat dryish. I will say that a long acquaintance with him showed that at the right moment Lord Sebastian Coe or Seb, as he asked me to call him, will not rush to help his neighbor, if it is not in his interests. But he is professionally savvy, in the lower house of parliament, and then in the house of Lords, he acquired the skills of a good orator. An excellent organizer, a solid, as they say now, a solver of all sorts of problems, who has gathered the necessary and so appreciated politess. Knows what to say to whom. Refusal in his mouth does not sound painful, but as if it becomes an attempt to convince the interlocutor that nothing terrible has happened, it will just be better that way. The question remains: for whom ?.

It was not the lord or even the sir that was so joyful yet, but simply Seb Coe was in Moscow, where he proved himself to be the king of the 1980 Olympics - albeit at difficult medium distances. Photo: AP

The programs of the two competitors were similar. Bubka leaned on the wider distribution of the somewhat delayed in its development under the 82-year-old Senegalese Diak athletics... The pragmatic Coe hit the most sore spots. He promised to give large sums annually national federations from contracts received by the IAAF for television broadcasts. Both vowed to fight doping - one of the main troubles of the sport, mired in scandals, which is losing popularity because of this and some of the people involved.

The British lord's victory was predictable in principle. But Bubka also lost with a decent result. A more severe defeat was predicted for him. He became Senior Vice President of the IAAF.

Call to Beijing

We watched with excitement whether Secretary General of the All-Russian Athletics Federation Mikhail Butov would become a member of the IAAF Council. And, having phoned Beijing, they breathed a sigh of relief. Here is what Mikhail Yakovlevich told us, leaving the hall, where the voting was still going on:
The fight was hard. There are 30 applicants for nine seats on the IAAF Council.

Wow! And How?

Mikhail Butov: I passed in the second round.

Mikhail, sincere congratulations. And how many votes?

Mikhail Butov: It turned out to be enough 69.

It's great that Russia still has its own representative on the council of the capricious IAAF. How are our ladies doing?

Mikhail Butov: Also very successful. Elena Orlova was elected to the technical committee, and Tatyana Lebedeva was elected to the women's committee for the second time in a row.

And Elena Isinbaeva?

Mikhail Butov: She claims to be on the Athletes' Commission. And then you have to wait until the end of the World Championship: the commission is elected by the athletes themselves during the World Championship. The result will be known, I hope, by August 30th.

I hope it will be victorious too. Good luck in Beijing. It all started great!

Mikhail Butov: Thanks to. We will try very hard.

by the way

The World Championship participants will be assisted by 2,800 volunteers. 300 employees of the World Championship Organizing Committee have already taken their places at the "Bird's Nest" stadium. It is hot in Beijing and 1,116,000 mineral water has been delivered to all members of the athletics family. TV broadcasts will be carried out with the help of 113 TV cameras.

- Now you are at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. What are your impressions of what is happening?

This competition is very high level... Younger participants begin to understand more about Olympic movement, absorb the atmosphere of the Games, and also show very decent results. The local population is also interested in the tournament. Everything is going well.

- We managed to talk with some of the Russian members of the International Olympic Committee(IOC) present in Argentina -,?

- I have not yet seen Vitaly and Elena, and only talked a little with Tarpishchev.

- How do you feel about the fact that at the Youth Olympics Russian athletes perform under their own flag, and not in a neutral status, as at the IAAF competitions?

- We all strive to ensure that Russian athletes can perform exactly like Russian athletes. This is a matter of principle. But for this to happen, the criteria must be fulfilled, which are clear and have been agreed between the IAAF and the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF). We have working group who is very productive. They will meet with ARAF representatives in November and will present a report to the IAAF Council members in December. Naturally, I will wait for this report before drawing any conclusions.

- Don't you think this is discrimination: why can young Russian athletes compete under the flag, while adults cannot?

- The situation looks a little different. There is a good, productive process that is helping to make a difference in athletics in general. Everything is extremely transparent. The goal is for all athletes around the world to perform clean. Therefore, we have created a neutral status to enable the "clean" Russian athletes perform on a par with the rest. Obviously, we want this to eventually lead to the rebuilding of the federation. But this will only happen when both sides agree that all the criteria are met.

- How did you react to the fact that ARAF does not agree with these criteria and recently challenged them in the Court of Arbitration for Sport?

- I was a little surprised, but this is exclusively a decision of the ARAF. We would, of course, prefer not to fight in the courts, but to work together at the negotiating table to fulfill the criteria.

McLaren's report - not only about Sochi-2014

- Let's talk in more detail about these criteria. Don't you think they are repeating the requirements of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for the restoration of RUSADA? Only WADA, unlike the IAAF, showed flexibility and rebuilt Russia, don't you want to?

- Our criteria are specific and related to the specific situation in athletics. Surely there are some common elements with the requirements of WADA, but this is also logical. It is not possible to re-establish a National Federation if there are concerns about the storage of samples in the laboratory. WADA required Russia to issue samples and electronic data, and this is included in our criteria too. So we will wait for the results of this process, which should appear by the end of this year.

- Why does the IAAF demand from Russia the recognition of the report, which is mainly devoted to what is happening at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi? And here Athletics?

- I do not think that McLaren's report is exclusively devoted to Sochi and winter sports. It contains much broader observations about the system that formed in Russian sports... In order to move forward, it is imperative first to acknowledge what has happened before. This is what I think athletes from all over the world want.

- WADA remained satisfied with the recognition of the McLaren report, which was contained in the letter of our Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov. Will these general expressions be enough for you - or will you insist on direct exposure to the last?

- I think that after meeting in November with representatives of ARAF, the IAAF working group will be able to correctly interpret the position of Russia and convey it to the members of the Council. Again, this is not specific to your country. The point is that there are clear criteria and they must be met.

- What do you think of WADA's recent decision to restore RUSADA's status? The IAAF Athletes' Commission, for example, was strongly opposed.

- I would not like to comment on the WADA decision, this is a different organization. In so far as it can affect the state of affairs in athletics, everything will depend on the working group. It is she who must assess the situation.

A solution will be found as soon as possible

- Do you personally want Russian athletics to be restored at the next meeting of the IAAF Council in December?

I cannot express my personal opinion on this issue. The working group led by Rune Andersen includes my colleagues on the IAAF Council. It is necessary to wait for their report, and then form a point of view. Understand, this will be a collegial decision of the federation, not my personal one. It will be accepted by people from all over the world, from Northern Ireland to Brazil. People who are independent and real professionals. They all want the situation to be resolved.

- How can you assess your interaction with the new leadership of ARAF and personally with the president?

- We have very good relations with your federation, and the working group confirms this. In her latest report, she acknowledges that the federation has made progress since 2017. But unfortunately, this is still not enough for recovery, since a number of criteria remain unfulfilled.

- If the criteria are not met until 2020, how do you see the performance of Russian athletes at the Tokyo Games? After all, a neutral status there is impossible and the IAAF will face a choice: either to remove everyone altogether - or to give athletes the opportunity to perform under their own flag?

- Let me not answer this question. I would not like to go into speculation and discuss various hypotheses. I repeat that we want and do our best for a solution to be found as soon as possible, provided that the criteria are met.

- Let's talk about Russian athletes who are now performing in a neutral status. Our main star is the high jumper ...

- Yes, and Shubenkov. But explain why last year Lasitskene, who did not lose a single (!) Tournament at all, became the world champion and showed phenomenal results, did not even make it into the top three of the short-list of the best female athletes of the year according to the IAAF? If that's not enough, what then needs to be done to get there?

- You must understand that it is not the IAAF management that makes decisions on the nominees and winners. This is done by a whole independent jury made up of the best experts and journalists from all over the world who have been working in athletics for many years. Plus, the opinion of the fans is taken into account, who also have the opportunity to vote. I cannot answer the question why their choice turned out to be exactly that. But I can guarantee that the decision was independent and was made in accordance with the rules.

- Will the situation be corrected this year?

- So far, even I do not know the names of the nominees. But I repeat, as the independent jury decides, it will be so.

The elections were held in Beijing on the eve of the opening world championship on August 22. The 50th IAAF Congress was attended by representatives from 207 countries. They were to determine who would lead the world athletics after the 16-year rule of the Senegalese Lamin Diak. 115 delegates voted for Coe, an unexpectedly high 92 for Bubka. Coe became only the sixth president of the second most powerful sports federation after FIFA. Usually people come to the IAAF seriously and for a long time.

Yes, there were only two candidates. Briton Coe is a two-time Olympic champion in the 1500-meter sprint, after sporting achievements he made a good political career. He was elected to parliament from the Conservatives, which he is in his views. Received the title of Sir, and then Lord. He became the ideological inspirer and president of the Organizing Committee of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which, as the British themselves believe, was impeccable.

Sergei Bubka does not need our special introduction. A multiple champion and world record holder in pole vaulting, he also achieved a lot in the new Ukraine. A successful businessman, a well-known sports leader. I am afraid, in the difficult conditions of the current political situation, to let Sergei Nazarevich down with unnecessary compliments. I will only say that in the present, far from the best period of relations between our two states, he has retained both sobriety of mind and respect for the country for which he spoke so successfully in his best years. We communicate, find a common language, keep in touch.

Coe, with whom I worked for many years on the IAAF press commission, is a person of a somewhat different kind. A diplomat who sometimes changes his mind in order to achieve his goal. The character is polite, intelligent, but somewhat dryish. I will say that a long acquaintance with him showed that at the right moment Lord Sebastian Coe or Seb, as he asked me to call him, will not rush to help his neighbor, if it is not in his interests. But he was professionally savvy, in the lower house of parliament, and then in the house of Lords, he acquired the skills of a good orator. An excellent organizer, a solid, as they say now, a solver of all sorts of problems, who has recruited the necessary and so appreciated politess. Knows what to say to whom. Refusal in his mouth does not sound painful, but as if it becomes an attempt to convince the interlocutor that nothing terrible has happened, it will just be better that way. The question remains: for whom ?.

The programs of the two competitors were similar. Bubka leaned on the wider distribution of athletics, which was somewhat delayed in its development at 82-year-old Senegalese Diak. The pragmatic Coe hit the most sore spots. He promised to give large sums annually to national federations from contracts received by the IAAF for TV broadcasts. Both vowed to fight doping - one of the main troubles of the sport, mired in scandals, which is losing popularity because of this and some of the people involved.

The British lord's victory was predictable in principle. But Bubka also lost with a decent result. A more severe defeat was predicted for him.

Now we will monitor whether our Mikhail Butov will become a member of the IAAF Council, whether Elena Isinbaeva will become a member of the athletes' commission (this is where, believe me, her scores and preferences, coupled with the uneasy personal relationships of the stars) and whether Tatyana Lebedeva will make her way to the women's commission.