Eugene was awarded the World Athletics Championships in 2021 without Gothenburg could even announce his candidacy.
Now, questioned the new IAAF chairman Sebastian Coe connections to Eugene .
– It smells bad, says Björn Eriksson told the BBC.
The National Sports Federation chairman was former chairman of the Swedish Athletics Association and head of the Gothenburg application for World Cup 2021. Eriksson went the ceiling for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in April decided to give the American Eugene VM without Sweden even had to submit an application. Eriksson also said earlier in November, when the IAAF’s former President Lamine Diack was arrested on suspicion of corruption, his picture of the IAAF was “a putrid organization with a democratic deficit.”
Coe explains itself
He will be no less outraged when the BBC show him an email from Nike, who sponsors the US athletics federation and that Coe’s ambassador, and US athletics federation, stating that Coe supports Eugene as World Cup organizer, 2021.
– It does not look good. This I want to Coe explains, says Eriksson.
Coe told the BBC that he never discussed the World Cup with Nike and that he constantly wanted to have an application process surrounding the World Cup 2021.
– I would have said during the board meeting in Beijing. But Diack told the Board that there were political and financial reasons, to give Eugene Championships. With an overwhelming majority (23-1), the Board decided to take the World Athletics Championships to a market where we have not previously been, he says.
Nike-payment problems
Coe, the corresponding 880 000 per year by Nike as
– It is a big problem, says Eriksson.
The IAAF is put under the microscope since the anti-doping organization, WADA revealed systematic doping in Russian athletics, where the athletics big shot as the former president Lamine Diack suspected of taking bribes to cover up the Russian doping.
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