On Thursday, WADA presented the second part of its report on doping in athletics. Here it emerged that the IAAF had known about systematic doping for a long time, and that corruption had occurred within the organization.

It turns out that former IAAF president, Lamine Diack, and his two sons are said to be responsible for serious criminal corruption. This involved, among other things, the transfer of hundreds of thousands of euros from accounts in Singapore to athletes as an offer to buy their way out of positive doping tests.

– We are talking about corruption at its worst and very serious. This is a story of robbery from another world, says NRK athletics expert and former athlete, Vebjørn Rodal.

– It remains to be seen whether trust can be restored

He attended the press conference on Thursday and was pleased that this information had now come to light.

– Now, at least, it’s mostly resolved. But it’s naive to think you’ve caught it all. There’s still some solid, proper manual work before this thing is cleaned up. It then remains to be seen whether trust in the IAAF can be restored, Rodal said.

– Is Coe the man to lead the IAAF further?

The president of the International Athletics Federation, Sebastian Coe, was vice president under Lamine Diack. Many questions afterwards were directed at whether Coe should lead the IAAF.

– What many of us are wondering is whether Lord Sebastian Coe is the right person to take further action. Should the International Association of Athletics Federations look for a new leader? Corruption was clearly present throughout the organization, and based on this information, Coe must have known something about it, Rodal said.

Despite criticizing the International Association of Athletics Federations, Dick Pound, the man who presented the report, is confident that the current president of athletics, Sebastian Coe, is the right man for the job.

– He said that Lord Coe could do as well as anyone to improve the IAAF’s impression and restore confidence. But there’s a lot of work to be done before we get there, Rodal said.