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There is new damning evidence suggesting that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world governing body of the sport of athletics is as guilty as the All-Russian Athletics Federation in hiding widespread or systematic Russian doping in a leaked, IAAF letter from 2009.
Therefore, unlike what the IAAF are currently claiming, there does appear to be evidence of long-standing and or widespread corruption in the head office.
The IAAF has some work to do to rectify the order of medals from past IAAF World Track and Field Championships and Olympic Games. For starters, the IAAF needs to re-order all medals from the 2009 Berlin world championships, in events where the Russians achieved medals.
The Associated Press have a copy of a letter written to permanently banned Valentin Balaknichev, former president of the ARAF, dated October 14, 2009. The image of the letter is damning evidence. It was signed by IAAF General Secretary Pierre Wiess.
As some medals have been re-awarded ad-hoc from various games already and bans have been put into place, which include the removal to certain points in history of performances, re-writing the Berlin championships is doing the right thing.
In the letter, Wiess wrote:
“Unfortunately, I do not have good news regarding the blood parameter levels of the Russian athletes in Berlin. Again they were extremely high, and again much more so than any other country competing. Again there were several of the usual suspects who produced these findings. Of the top ten highest blood values recorded in Berlin, 8 of them came from Russian athletes and many more than just these 8 were also very suspicious.”
Wiess went on to voice concern, not just for the cheating, but the health risks, as the blood values were so high.
“…These results are startling because not only are these athletes cheating their fellow competitors but at these levels are putting their health and even their own lives in very serious danger.”
The IAAF is complicit in hiding these results now up to six years , according to this letter and thus the responsibility rests with the worldwide governing body to undo past wrongs.
January 20, 2015 Valeriy Borchin who is a 20K Racewalker was disqualified for eight years starting from October 15, 2012 and all of his results between July 14, 2009 and September 15, 2009, between June 16, 2011 and September 27, 2011 as well as between April 11, 2012 and September 3, 2012 (which include two world championship golds) were annulled.
On March 25, 2015, the IAAF filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland, questioning the selective disqualification of the suspension periods of six athletes involved including Borchin.
This is truly a WTF? moment, when the IAAF General Secretary writes to the ARAF President a long letter implicating Russian athletes, then the IAAF files an appeal upon a proven Russian drug cheat’s suspension.
The IAAF is as guilty as Russia.
For the athletes below that apparently have not tested positive, they still very likely did and the athletes were not suspended, in fact the high blood values were hidden by both Wiess and Balaknichev.
20K Racewalk – Men
Valeriy Borchin RUS – Tested positive – results annulled
Hao Wang CHN
Edgar Sanchez MEX
Giorgio Robino ITA
20K Racewalk – Women
Olga KANISKINA RUS – Tested positive – suspended three years and two months
Olive LOUGHNANE IRL
Hong LIU CHN
Anisya KIRDYAPKINA RUS – Husband Sergey tested positive – suspended three years and two months
Vera SANTOS POR
Hammer Throw – Men
Primož KOZMUS SLO
Szymon ZIÓLKOWSKI POL
Aleksey ZAGORNYI RUS
Krisztián PARS HUN
Triple Jump – Women
Yargeris SAVIGNE CUB
Mabel GAY CUB
Anna PYATYKH RUS
Biljana TOPIC SRB
3000msc Men
Yuliya ZARIPOVA RUS – Tested positive – suspended two years and six months
Milcah Chemos CHE KEN
Gulnara GALKINA RUS
Jennifer SIMPSON USA
Habiba GHRIBI TUN
Javelin Throw – Women
Steffi NERIUS GER
Barbora ŠPOTÁKOVÁ CZE
Maria ABAKUMOVA RUS
Monica STOIAN ROU
400m –Women
Sanya RICHARDS-ROSS USA
Shericka WILLIAMS JAM
Antonina KRIVOSHAPKA RUS
Novlene WILLIAMS-MILLS JAM
High Jump – Women
Blanka VLAŠIC CRO
Anna CHICHEROVA RUS
Ariane FRIEDRICH GER
Antonietta DI MARTINO ITA
50K Racewalk – Men
Sergey KIRDYAPKIN RUS – Tested positive – suspended three years and two months
Trond NYMARK NOR
Jesús Ángel GARCÍA ESP
Grzegorz SUDOL POL
High Jump – Men
Yaroslav RYBAKOV RUS
Kyriakos IOANNOU CYP
Sylwester BEDNAREK POL
Raul SPANK GER
Long Jump – women
Brittney REESE USA
Tatyana LEBEDEVA RUS
Karin MEY MELIS TUR
Naide GOMES POR
4 x 400m – Men
UNITED STATES USA
JAMAICA JAM
RUSSIA RUS
GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. GB
POS COUNTRY TOTAL
1 USA USA 10 6 6 22
2 JAM JAM 7 4 2 13
3 KEN KEN 4 5 2 11
4 RUS RUS 4 3 6 13
5 POL POL 2 4 2 8
6 GER GER 2 3 4 9
7 ETH ETH 2 2 4 8
8 GBR GBR 2 2 2 6
9 RSA RSA 2 1 0 3
10 AUS AUS 2 0 2 4
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