* Ex-president Lamine Diack was "responsible for organising and enabling the conspiracy and corruption that took place in the IAAF".

* Diack appeared to have created a close inner circle which functioned as "an informal illegitimate governance structure" outside the IAAF. 

* Diack sanctioned and appeared to have had personal knowledge of the fraud and the extortion of athletes carried out under the illegitimate governance structure he put in place. 

* The IAAF had an inadequate governance process in place to prevent the corruption that occurred and the checks and balances of good governance were missing. 

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Roma have confirmed that Luciano Spalletti is to take charge of the Serie A club for a second spell.

Spalletti, who coached the Italians between 2005 and 2009, replaces Rudi Garcia, who was sacked on Wednesday with the club fifth in Serie A, seven points behind leaders Napoli.  

A Question of Sport Teaser

Earlier we asked who are the seven players to have scored 50 or more Premier League goals for Arsenal?

And the answers are Thierry Henry, Ian Wright, Robin van Persie, Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires, Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud.

Congratulations if you who got all seven of those.

Commiserations to those of you who grossly overestimated Nicklas Bendtner's legacy.

Shadow sports minister Clive Efford: "I've not had a written response to my letter to Lord Coe that I sent just before Christmas, we've got a meeting set up soon.

"The IAAF is clearly an organisation in need of fundametnal reform

"But Dick Pound is also saying, reading between the lines, that you should be careful what you wish for.

"If you bring down Seb Coe, you never know who might come in."

Guardian chief sports correspondent Owen Gibson is one of many journalists chasing Lord Coe in vainfor his response to Wada's report.

Coe does have a bit of running pedigree, to be fair...

Wada president Sir Craig Reedie has said: “It is hugely disturbing that individuals at the highest levels of the IAAF were abetting and covering up doping for their own financial gain.

“This flagrant disregard for the law and anti-doping rules undermines trust amongst clean athletes, and indeed the public, worldwide. Given their criminal nature, the actions of these individuals are now in the hands of the French justice system.

“It is now important that the IAAF, under the leadership of Sebastian Coe, adopts the recommendations of the report in full."

The independent commission report found that individuals at the IAAF extorted athletes of money in exchange for covering up doping results.

Professor Richard McLaren, a Wada member, legal counsel and one of the report's co-author, told the news conference that former IAAF president Lamine Diack inserted his personal legal adviser, Habib Cisse, into the IAAF medical and anti-doping department "to enable Cisse to manage and follow up Russian athlete biological passport (ABP) cases". 

He added: "The deliberate insertion by the president of Cisse and his actions were intended to achieve the same results of manipulation and delay with the ABP cases involving the Russians - the same result as had been achieved with the urine samples." 

Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has issued a statement, describing the report's findings as "extremely alarming". 

She added: "It raises huge questions about governance at the IAAF that have to be addressed as a matter of absolute urgency. 

"The IAAF must do all it can to restore its credibility. The government is committed to helping tackle corruption in sport and this issue will be on the agenda at our major anti-corruption summit later this year."

Mike Costello
BBC Radio 5 live athletics correspondent

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Lord Coe's reputation is on the line, especially with what he's been saying about Lamine Diack being the spiritual leader of the sport.

Time after time he said there was no cover up but of course there was a cover up, Wada chairman Dick Pound said today.

While he might not be directly guilty of corruption, there has to be some guilt by association for Coe.

Yet within athletics there is a feeling that if not Seb Coe then who else? 

Also within his favour is that shortly after the first part of Wada's report, the council voted unanimously to suspend Russia but there is a long road ahead.

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More from former British 400m hurdler Kriss Akabusi:

"I don't think Seb Coe will fall on his sword - he may see it as cometh the hour, cometh the man. But he needs to be as serious as he says he is, and they're two different things.

"It's not going to be easy and he needs diferent people in his team - he won't sort it out with the same people.

"He was a world-class athlete and he's going to need to be a world-class administrator and politician now."

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Away from the focus on doping there is an interesting entry in the report on the awarding of the 2020 Olympic Games to Tokyo.

"Transcripts of the various discussions between Turkish individuals with Khalil Diack [IAAF consultant and son of president Lamine Diack] make reference to a discussion regarding the bidding process," it reads.

"It is stated that Turkey lost Lamine Diack's support because they did not pay sponsorship money of $4m to $5m either to the Diamond League or IAAF. According the transcript, the Japanese did pay such a sum. 

"The independent commission did not investigate this matter further for it was not within our remit."

Russia Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has told the R-Sport agency that the Wada independent commission report is “absurd” as it is “almost accusing" the nation's president Vladimir Putin "of doping".

He said: “Our American colleagues and others are almost accusing our president of doping. This is absurd. Those who are responsible should answer to the allegations.”

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Former British 400m hurdler Kriss Akabusi: "I find it very difficult for Lord Coe to say he's got absolutely no clue - the only way is if a vice-president is a titular position that has no real contact with the sport.

"If he really wants us to believe he had no clue, if he really was that naive and unaware, then what is going to help him become more aware of a lot of the challenges that the sport is going to have going forward.

"If he was that naive then you're going to walk past stuff. He can't go in there with people of his ilk, he needs to go in with people who will challenge his thinking."

Mike Costello
BBC Radio 5 live athletics correspondent

At the moment we're talking about athletics at an all-time low.

There have been so many great and clean athletes down the years but this has to be one of the darkest days in the sport's history.

Many details have been leaked in the run up to this report being announced but it still amounts to a damning account of the sport.

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A question to Wada chairman Dick Pound: "Lord Coe has repeatedly denied that he knew what was going on with the doping in Russia. Given that he was a member of both the council and the executive board, was he lying?"

Pound's answer: “I do not believe so. You’ve got to understand the concentration of power in and around the president of any international federation and the relative infrequence with which something like the IAAF council meet and the level of information that would be conveyed from those at the top to the council, particularly if it happened to deal with problems.

“If you are asking me to give an opinion whether he lied or not, he didn’t lie.”

One of the key characters in the report - one of former IAAF president Lamine Diack's sons - has other issues to deal with right now...

Sunday Times chief sports writer David Walsh asks if Russia will have sufficient time to get its house in order to be ready for the Rio Olympics?

Wada chairman Dick Pound says: "I don't know the answer to that question. We thought at time, given the advance notice, if they devoted time and energy, there is no reason why they couldn't be ready.

"Whether they have done so is up to Russia and the IAAF and Wada."

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It's fair to say Wada chairman and the report's co-author Dick Pound has not been impressed by the IAAF's response to the allegations.

He said: "Every time we give a report we get documents and the IAAF dicing and slicing, [saying] that it was just a few rogue individuals and it wasn’t the IAAF, which consists of loyal servants and blah blah blah.”

Noel Fitzpatrick: If Lord Coe knew [about doping] then he has to go, if he didn't....would you want someone so naive running the show?

Matt Slater
BBC Sport

Kenya, Morocco, Turkey etc are off the hook for now. Wada chairman Dick Pound says their remit was Russia and IAAF only.