Athletics: WADA backs Lord Coe to lead beleaguered IAAF

Lord Coe is the right man to lead the crisis-hit IAAF according to the author of a report that claims "corruption was embedded" within the organisation.

Coe, 59, became boss of the body that governs world athletics last August after eight years as a vice-president.

Since then, the IAAF has come in for heavy criticism, accused of helping cover up systematic doping in Russia.

But Dick Pound, whose World Anti-Doping Agency report damns IAAF governance, insists he "can't think of anyone better" than Coe to lead it.

Dan Roan reports.

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