POSTED: May 11th 2010
NewsUpdate
As we told you . . . Lamine Diack to run for new term as IAAF president
KEIR RADNEDGE / Sports Features Communications
LONDON, May 11: Lamine Diack has announced that he will stand again next year for the presidency of the IAAF - an announcement Neil Wilson predicted was imminent in his Exclusive Column posted here on SportsFeatures.com last week.
Diack has almost certainly forestalled an election by putting
himself forward as a candidate. No IAAF president in its 98 years has been opposed in an election, the reason athletic's world body has had only five presidents.
Other likely candidates, such as Olympic champions Sergey
Bubka and Sebastian Coe, will not want to be seen to challenge an
incumbent and will wait until 2015 for their moment.
Diack, who succeeded at the death of Primo Nebiolo in 1999,
will be 78 by the time of the election in August, 2011 and will be
seeking a fresh four-year term.
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