Fredericks snubs IAAF meeting
Frank Fredericks has taken the advice of European Athletics president Svein-Arne Hansen and will withdraw from his IAAF duties.
Frank Fredericks will not attend the next meeting of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) next month.
This decision comes after corruption allegations that have tainted the former Namibian sprinting hero.
Last week, IAAF president Sebastian Coe announced that although Fredericks had withdrawn from his International Olympic Committee duties, he retained his active IAAF roles.
However, several prominent members urged the Namibian to step aside from the athletics governing body's work.
A report in SBS on Saturday maintained that Fredericks had withdrawn from his roles at the IAAF too.
Fredericks, a longstanding IOC member, received a bank transfer of almost $300 000 through an offshore company on the day in October 2009 that Rio de Janeiro was elected to host the 2016 Olympics.
The money originally came from a Brazilian businessman and was channelled via a sports marketing company created by the son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack, Le Monde reported.
Papa Massata Diack was an IAAF marketing consultant and has since been banned for life by the governing body.
Fredericks has denied wrongdoing, and said he had a contract in 2009 with the sports marketing company.
He reported details of the case to ethics commissions at the IOC and IAAF.
The news that Fredericks might be implicated in a corruption scandal has left many Namibians in shock. For Namibians, Fredericks has been a true hero.
Scandals in the world of sport leadership have lately become a common problem.
- Additional reporting by Nampa
JESSE JACKSON KAURAISA
This decision comes after corruption allegations that have tainted the former Namibian sprinting hero.
Last week, IAAF president Sebastian Coe announced that although Fredericks had withdrawn from his International Olympic Committee duties, he retained his active IAAF roles.
However, several prominent members urged the Namibian to step aside from the athletics governing body's work.
A report in SBS on Saturday maintained that Fredericks had withdrawn from his roles at the IAAF too.
Fredericks, a longstanding IOC member, received a bank transfer of almost $300 000 through an offshore company on the day in October 2009 that Rio de Janeiro was elected to host the 2016 Olympics.
The money originally came from a Brazilian businessman and was channelled via a sports marketing company created by the son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack, Le Monde reported.
Papa Massata Diack was an IAAF marketing consultant and has since been banned for life by the governing body.
Fredericks has denied wrongdoing, and said he had a contract in 2009 with the sports marketing company.
He reported details of the case to ethics commissions at the IOC and IAAF.
The news that Fredericks might be implicated in a corruption scandal has left many Namibians in shock. For Namibians, Fredericks has been a true hero.
Scandals in the world of sport leadership have lately become a common problem.
- Additional reporting by Nampa
JESSE JACKSON KAURAISA
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