Professor Richard McLaren, a Wada member and legal counsel, says: "Certain individuals within the IAAF went beyond sporting corruption and may have been criminal corruption. It demonstrates that the time for reform - and nor denial - is now."

Wada chairman Dick Pound: "The IAAF was insufficiently active in investigating matters of blood doping."

Richard Conway
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent

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Lord Coe is in the audience and I expect it will be very uncomfortable listening for him.

It will be an important round of interviews for Coe afterwards - he came in August with a mandate to clean up athletics but things have got worse.

He's been dragged into this crisis on a personal level, it has unravelled very quickly so it will be interesting to hear how he responds

He'll want to get on the front foot and set out how he will try to restore the sport's credibility.

It was already reeling from a number of damaging revelations and was strongly criticised for its failure to tackle doping. 

In fact, it was only after Wada chairman Dick Pound accused Russia of systematic doping practises in the first part of his report last November that the IAAF stepped in and banned Russian athletes from competition. 

Speaking before Thursday's announcement, Gregory Ioannidis, a sports lawyer, said he expected it to be a "very dark day for world athletics". 

Worse could follow, too. French police have issued a 'wanted' notice via Interpol for Papa Massata Diack, the son of the former IAAF president Lamine, on charges of corruption and money-laundering.

At the top table are Professor Richard McLaren, a Wada member and legal counsel; Dick Pound, Wada's independent commission chairman and former president; and Gunter Younger, another Wada member.

Richard Conway
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent

We are going to hear from the co-authors of the independent report and how far the allegations stretch.

We'll learn who was involved, who was implicated and about the future direction of the sport.

Many people will be looking at Lord Coe and whether he is the right man to clean up the sport.

They'll also be asking what did he know about the corruption at the IAAF.

Lord Coe became president of the IAAF - 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. 

Now an investigation has concluded the corruption "cannot be blamed on a small number of miscreants" within the IAAF. 

An 89-page report, written by former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound, has just been made public at a news conference in Munich.

The IAAF council, which includes the organisation's current president Lord Coe, "could not have been unaware of the extent of doping in athletics" according to an independent commission report from the World Anti-Doping Agency.

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The second part of Wada's independent report claims "corruption was embedded" within the IAAF.

You can watch live coverage of the news conference as Wada reveal the second part of their independent report, which is expected to criticise athletics' governing body the IAAF for failing to tackle doping.

Click the live coverage tab at the top of this page. It's due to start in five minutes.

So the news conference is about to start as Wada reveal the second part of their independent report.

Need a refresher on the Russian doping crisis? Here it is in 60 seconds...

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Former South Africa batsman Gulam Bodi has been charged with match-fixing by the country's national cricket body.

Cricket South Africa says Bodi is the "intermediary" who was charged under its anti-corruption code in December but Bodi is yet to respond.

The India-born 37-year-old notably played a part in hastening Kevin Pietersen's move to England after he was selected by Natal at the expense of Pietersen in 2000.

Bodit also apologised for mocking Jonathan Trott on Twitter after Trott left the Ashes tour of 2013-14 with a stress-related illness.

Things are going well for Britain's Heather Watson, who has won the first set against Sweden's Johanna Larsson in their quarter-final at the WTA event in Hobart.

Watson, the defending champion, took it 6-3 as she chases a place in the last four.

Bill Rice
BBC Radio Manchester

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Real Madrid’s transfer ban is good news for Manchester United in their efforts to keep hold of goalkeeper David de Gea, who came close to joining the Spanish side on deadline day last summer. 

The 25-year-old was set to join Madrid for £29m, only for the deal to collapse with the paperwork being submitted late. The goalkeeper subsequently signed a new four-year deal at Old Trafford, and although that is likely to contain a release clause for an agreed fee or if United fail to qualify for the Champions League.

Any chance of Real making a move for the goalkeeper will now surely have to wait until the summer of 2017, unless they succeed with an appeal or perhaps even move now.

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Real and Atletico are the latest high-profile clubs to undergo a transfer ban, but it's also affecting clubs closer to home. 

Three Championship clubs currently have transfer bans (Bolton, Fulham and Nottingham Forest) until at least the end of the season, and it was only last month that Blackburn Rovershad theirs lifted. Forest are currently in their second embargo in 12 months and Leeds United also had one in place for six months in 2015. 

Needless to say, none of these sides have had successful periods under these restrictions. 

Rob Nothman
BBC Sport

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Mauricio Pochettino also spoke about Jermain Defoe's return to White Hart Lane with Sunderland. "We need to be careful. He is a great player and goalscorer," the Argentine said.

Rob Nothman
BBC Sport

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Mauricio Pochettino was asked whether he was relieved to hear of the transfer bans imposed on the Madrid clubs, who may be interested in signing striker Harry Kane. The query was met with a straight bat. "Harry Kane is not for sale," he said.

Rob Nothman
BBC Sport

The pigeon has arrived...

No fresh injury concerns for Mauricio Pochettino after Spurs' defeat against Leicester. "We feel very disappointed and we need to react. We made a small mistake and need to fix that."

Dan Roan
BBC Sports editor in Munich

I understand that IAAF President Lord Coe will attend today's WADA Commission news conference here in Munich.

The conference is scheduled to begin at 14:00 GMT

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

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As we told you earlier on, the second part of Wada's independent report into doping in athletics will be published at 14:00 GMT.

Former runner and BBC commentator Brendan Foster has been speaking to the Today Programme’s Nick Robinson ahead of the release.

"We’ve got a governing body that is not fit for purpose, and I think this is the worst day in the history of this great sport, the truly global sport of athletics. The agenda is clearly set for Seb Coe that he has to change the future of athletics.

"He’s hurting with all this. I’ve spoken to him recently and he’s determined he’s going to change this thing. I think you change the name of the federation; you change the venue where it works from."