A new president of the International Athletics Federation has been elected. IAAF President Sebastian Koe: “I’m surprised that Russia sued us” IAAF transcript

IAAF

International Association of Athletics Federations(English) International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) , in Russian the abbreviation is usually used IAAF listen)) is the world governing body for athletics.

The IAAF is established for an unlimited period of time with the legal status of an association in accordance with the laws of Monaco.

Currently, 212 countries are members of the IAAF (4 countries more than in FIFA, and 20 representatives more than in the UN). The organization's headquarters were located in Monaco, where it remains to this day. President - Lamine Diack (Senegal)

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This article will talk about the international athletics association IAAF. What it is? How does this abbreviation stand for? Under what circumstances was the organization created? All this will be presented below.

Athletics disciplines regulated by the IAAF

“Show and spectacle!” - the spectators of the Colosseum shouted in the Roman Empire. If the “king of sports” is football, then the “queen” is certainly athletics. This spectacular type of competition, which attracts full stadiums of spectators and millions of television fans, currently consists of 47 types (disciplines). The most popular are:

running 60 meters indoors and 100 meters in stadiums;
(42 km 195 meters);
various long, triple and high jumps;
discus, javelin, hammer throwing, shot put;
(60, 100, 110 meters);
steeplechase - a 3000-meter steeplechase overcoming water holes and hurdles;
race walking;
heptathlon for women and decathlon for men.

In terms of entertainment, athletics can only be compared with the Olympic Games, of which it is included in the main program. The main types of queen sports have been held in the main stadiums of the Olympics since the very moment they were held.

IAAF - what is it?

In order to regulate coaches and athletes, hold championships, establish uniform standards and rules for everyone, record achievements, keep records and propaganda, we need a central governing body for all this. In each country where there are athletics sections, national federations are formed, which are part of a single federation called the International Athletics Association (IAAF).

After the end of the competition at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm (Sweden), they decided to hold a meeting to approve the world universal rules for competition in this sport. As a result, the amateur international athletics federation was formed. IAAF - what is it?

The development of communications, the increase in cash injections into sports, the race for records forced us to change one of the words without changing the abbreviation IAAF. So, in 2001 we received the name that remains to this day - the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). What it is? How did the organization develop and who is at its helm?

History of the organization's development

Only 17 countries attended the first amateur athletics congress; today there are more than two hundred of them. In Berlin in 1913, the congress approved the constitution of the organization, which already included 34 national federations. Siegfried Edström from Sweden was elected as the first president. The federation's headquarters were located in the same country for the next 30 years. In 1914, where the third congress took place, the first international competition rules were announced, which were to be adopted by all national organizations to prepare their athletes in the international arena of world championships and Olympics.

In 1946, the headquarters moved to England for 40 years. At the next congress in Stuttgart (1993), it was decided to move the central office of the federation from cold and rainy regions to warmer and more fashionable places in Southern Europe (to attract sponsors). In the same year, the headquarters moved to the Principality of Monaco, where the UN, Interpol, OSCE, UNESCO, WHO and other international organizations are located. At the moment, the head of the IAAF is the outstanding runner of the century Sebastian Coe (Great Britain). He was twice denied the presidency by a slight majority of votes. Lord Coe had the advantage because of his greater experience in political affairs.

IAAF composition

The IAAF Council consists of 21 members, the treasurer (whose position was the Russian Valentin Balakhnichev), vice-presidents, the first or honorary vice-president and the president of the federation himself.

The organization's charter contains 14 noble goals. Patrons are attracted, official partnership agreements have been signed with the companies Adidas, Toyota, Seiko, Kenon, TDK, the oil company Sinopek and VTB Bank (the latter terminated the agreement due to a scandal with the Russian national team).

In honor of the association's centenary, on March 8, 2012, at a congress in Istanbul, the IAAF Hall of Fame was opened by President Lamine Diack (athlete, politician, father of 15 children). Athletics has received a new round of development.

How to become a member of the IAAF?

The criterion for inclusion in the list of the best athletes of all time is the presence of 2 gold medals (Olympic or won at the World Championships). Also, at least 10 years must have passed since the end of your career. Outstanding athletes from the times of the USSR, world sports stars are: Sergei Bubka, Vladimir Golubnichy, Natalya Lisovskaya, Yanis Lusis, Viktor Saneev, Yuri Sedykh, Tatyana Kazankina, Vladimir Kuts, Sergei Litvinov, Irina Press.

The organization does its best to develop and promote athletics, fair sports competitions, and the accessibility of sports for all categories, regardless of age, race, nationality, or religious beliefs. Of course, this is very difficult at the present time.

Development of athletics today

Sports today are not harmless physical exercises to maintain human health and activity. This is already a thirst for fame, fees, dirty intrigues of large corporations, bookmakers and media magnates. This was confirmed by the disqualification due to an alleged doping scandal of the entire Russian athletics team.

The team was not allowed to participate in the 2016 Olympics and was suspended from international competitions for two years. Now pharmacology has reached such a level that every teenager who drinks energy drinks and slightly fermented yoghurts can be disqualified, plus all the grandmothers and people with colds who bought medications containing drugs prohibited by the Anti-Doping Agency. It's sad that politics has come before fair sports.

Any decision by the IAAF today is not made without the consent of organizations far from sports. Many famous athletes ended their careers for this reason.

The elections were held in Beijing on the eve of the World Cup opening here on August 22. Representatives from 207 countries participated in the 50th IAAF Congress. They had to determine who would lead world athletics after the 16-year reign of Senegalese Lamine Diack. 115 delegates voted for Koe, and unexpectedly many voted for Bubka - 92. Koe became only the sixth president of the second most powerful sports federation after FIFA. Usually people come to the IAAF seriously and for a long time.

Yes, there were only two candidates. Briton Coe is a two-time Olympic champion in the 1500 meter run; after his sporting achievements, he made a good political career. He was elected to parliament from the Conservatives, which, in his views, he is. Received the title of Sir and then Lord. He became the ideological inspirer and president of the Organizing Committee of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which, as the British themselves believe, he conducted impeccably.

Sergei Bubka does not need our special introductions. A multiple champion and world record holder in pole vaulting, he also achieved a lot in the new Ukraine. A successful businessman, a famous sports leader. In the difficult conditions of the current political situation, I am afraid to let Sergei Nazarievich down with unnecessary compliments. I will only say that even in the current period of relations between our two states, which is far from the best, he has retained both his sobriety and respect for the country for which he so successfully stood in his best years. We communicate, find a common language, maintain contact.

Coe, with whom I worked for many years on the IAAF press commission, is a slightly different person. A diplomat who sometimes changes his decisions to achieve his goal. The character is polite, intelligent, but somewhat dry. I will say that my long acquaintance with him showed that at the right moment, Lord Sebastian Coe, or Seb, as he asked me to call him, would not rush to the aid of his neighbor if it was not in his interests. But he is professionally savvy, in the lower house of parliament, and then in the House of Lords, he acquired the skills of a good speaker. An excellent organizer, a firm, as they say now, a solver of all sorts of problems, who has acquired the necessary and so valued politesse. Knows what to say and to whom. The refusal in his mouth does not sound painful, but as if it becomes an attempt to convince the interlocutor that nothing terrible has happened, it will simply be better. The question remains: for whom?

The programs of the two opponents were similar. Bubka leaned on the wider dissemination of athletics, which was somewhat delayed in its development under the 82-year-old Senegalese Diack. The pragmatic Koe hit where it hurt the most. He promised to annually give large sums to national federations from contracts received by the IAAF for television broadcasts. Both vowed to fight doping - one of the main problems of a sport mired in scandals, which is losing popularity and some of its participants because of this.

The victory of the British lord was, in principle, predictable. But Bubka also lost with a decent result. A more severe defeat was predicted for him.

Now we will see whether our Mikhail Butov will become a member of the IAAF Council, whether Elena Isinbaeva will become a member of the athletes’ commission (that’s where, believe me, she has her own scores and preferences, coupled with the difficult personal relationships of the stars) and whether Tatyana Lebedeva will make her way to the women’s commission.

- Now you are at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. What are your impressions of what is happening?

This is a very high level competition. Young participants begin to understand more about the Olympic movement, absorb the atmosphere of the Games, and also show very decent results. The local population is also interested in the tournament. Everything goes well.

- Did you manage to communicate with any of the Russian members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) present in Argentina - , ?

- I haven’t seen Vitaly and Elena yet, and only talked a little with Tarpishchev.

- How do you feel about the fact that at the Youth Olympics Russian athletes compete under their own flag, and not in a neutral status, as at IAAF competitions?

- We all strive to ensure that Russian athletes can perform exactly like Russian athletes. This is a fundamental question. But for this to happen, it is necessary to fulfill the criteria that are clear and have been agreed upon between the IAAF and the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF). We have a working group that is working very productively. They meet with ARAF representatives in November and will present a report to IAAF Council members in December. Naturally, I will wait for this report before drawing any conclusions.

- Don’t you think this is discrimination: why can young Russian track and field athletes compete under the flag, but adults cannot?

- The situation looks a little different. There is a good productive process going on that is helping to change the state of affairs in athletics as a whole. Everything is extremely transparent. The goal is for all track and field athletes from around the world to compete clean. Therefore, we created a neutral status to give “pure” Russian athletes the opportunity to compete on an equal basis with others. Obviously, we want this to ultimately lead to the restoration of the federation. But this will only happen when both parties agree that all criteria have been met.

- How did you react to the fact that ARAF does not agree with these criteria and recently challenged them in the Court of Arbitration for Sport?

- I was a little surprised, but this is solely the decision of ARAF. We would, of course, prefer not to fight in the courts, but to work together at the negotiating table to fulfill the criteria.

McLaren report - not only about Sochi 2014

- Let's talk in more detail about these criteria. Don't you think that they are repeating the demands of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for the restoration of RUSADA? Only WADA, unlike the IAAF, showed flexibility and restored Russia, but you don’t want to?

- Our criteria are specific and related to the situation specifically in athletics. Of course, there are some common elements with WADA requirements, but this is logical. It is impossible to restore a national federation if there are concerns about the storage of samples in the laboratory. WADA demanded that Russia provide samples and electronic data, and this is also included in our criteria. So we will wait for the results of this process, which should appear by the end of this year.

- Why does the IAAF require Russia to recognize the report, which is mainly devoted to what is happening at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi? What does athletics have to do with it?

- It doesn’t seem to me that McLaren’s report is dedicated exclusively to Sochi and winter sports. It contains much broader observations about the system that has formed in Russian sports. To move forward, it is first crucial to acknowledge what happened before. This is what I think athletes all over the world want.

- WADA was satisfied with the recognition of McLaren’s report, which was contained in a letter from our Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov. Will these general expressions be enough for you - or will you insist to the last on direct exposure?

- I think that after the meeting in November with representatives of ARAF, the IAAF working group will be able to correctly interpret Russia’s position and convey it to the members of the Council. I repeat, this is not specific to your country. The point is that there are clear criteria and they must be met.

- What do you think about WADA’s recent decision to restore the status of RUSADA? The IAAF Athletes' Commission, for example, came out strongly against it.

- I would not like to comment on WADA's decision; it is a different organization. To the extent that it can affect the state of affairs in athletics, everything will depend on the working group. It is she who must assess the situation.

A solution will be found as soon as possible

- Do you personally want Russian athletics to be restored at the next meeting of the IAAF Council in December?

I cannot express a personal opinion on this matter. The working group led by Rune Andersen includes my colleagues on the IAAF Council. It is necessary to wait for their report, and then form a point of view. Please understand that this will be a collegial decision of the federation, and not my personal one. It will be hosted by people from all over the world, from Northern Ireland to Brazil. People who are independent and true professionals. They all want the situation to be resolved.

- How can you assess your interaction with the new leadership of ARAF and the president personally?

- We have very good relations with your federation, and the working group confirms this. In her latest report, she acknowledges that the federation has made progress compared to 2017. But unfortunately, this is not yet enough for recovery, since a number of criteria remain unfulfilled.

- If the criteria are not met before 2020, how do you see the performance of Russian athletes at the Games in Tokyo? After all, a neutral status is impossible there and the IAAF will be faced with a choice: either remove everyone altogether, or give athletes the opportunity to compete under their own flag?

- Let me not answer this question. I would not like to go into speculation and discuss various hypotheses. I repeat that we want and are doing everything possible so that a solution is found as soon as possible, but subject to the fulfillment of the criteria.

- Let's talk about Russian athletes who are now performing in a neutral status. Our main star is the high jumper...

- Yes, and Shubenkov. But explain why last year Lasitskene, who did not lose a single (!) tournament, became the world champion and showed phenomenal results, did not even make it into the top three shortlist of the best athletes of the year according to the IAAF? If this is not enough, then what do you need to do to get there?

- You must understand that the IAAF leadership does not make decisions on nominees and winners. This is done by an entire independent jury composed of the best experts and journalists from around the world who have been working in athletics for many years. Plus, the opinion of fans is taken into account, who also have the opportunity to vote. I cannot answer the question why their choice turned out to be this way. But I can guarantee that the decision was independent and made in accordance with the rules.

- Will the situation be corrected this year?

- Even I don’t know the names of the nominees yet. But I repeat, whatever the independent jury decides, so it will be.

Coe, with whom I worked for many years on the IAAF press commission, is a somewhat different person. A diplomat who sometimes changes his decisions to achieve his goal. The character is polite, intelligent, but somewhat dry. I will say that my long acquaintance with him showed that at the right moment, Lord Sebastian Coe, or Seb, as he asked me to call him, would not rush to the aid of his neighbor if it was not in his interests. But he is professionally savvy, in the lower house of parliament, and then in the House of Lords, he acquired the skills of a good speaker. An excellent organizer, a firm, as they say now, a solver of all sorts of problems, who has acquired the necessary and so valued politesse. Knows what to say and to whom. The refusal in his mouth does not sound painful, but as if it becomes an attempt to convince the interlocutor that nothing terrible has happened, it will simply be better. The question remains: for whom?

It was not the lord or even the sir who was so joyful, but simply Seb Coe in Moscow, where he proved himself to be the king of the 1980 Olympics - albeit at difficult middle distances. Photo: AP

The victory of the British lord was, in principle, predictable. But Bubka also lost with a decent result. A more severe defeat was predicted for him. He became senior vice-president of the IAAF.

Call to Beijing

We watched with excitement whether the Secretary General of the All-Russian Athletics Federation, Mikhail Butov, would become a member of the IAAF Council. And, having reached Beijing, they breathed a sigh of relief. This is what Mikhail Yakovlevich told us as he left the hall where voting was still going on:
The fight was hard. There are 30 candidates for nine seats on the IAAF Council.

Wow! And How?

Mikhail Butov: I passed in the second round.

Mikhail, sincere congratulations. And how many votes?

Mikhail Butov: 69 turned out to be sufficient.

It’s great that Russia still has its own representative on the board of the capricious IAAF. How are our ladies doing?

Mikhail Butov: Also very successful. Elena Orlova was elected to the technical committee, and Tatyana Lebedeva was elected to the women's committee for the second time in a row.

And Elena Isinbaeva?

Mikhail Butov: She is running for a seat on the athletes' commission. And here you will have to wait until the end of the World Championship: the commission is elected by the athletes themselves during the world championship. The result will be known, hopefully, on August 30th.

I hope it will be victorious too. Good luck in Beijing. Everything started great!

Mikhail Butov: Thank you. We will try very hard.

By the way

The World Cup participants will be assisted by 2,800 volunteers. 300 workers of the World Championship Organizing Committee have already taken their positions at the Bird's Nest stadium. It’s hot in Beijing and 1 million 116 thousand mineral water was brought in for all members of the athletics family. TV broadcasts will be conducted using 113 television cameras.