IAAF

abbreviation

1. International Amateur Athletic Federation.

IAAF

abbreviation

1. International Amateur Athletic Federation

Example Sentences

French authorities charged that while Mr. Diack led the IAAF, $15 million from the organization was funneled to companies controlled by his son, Papa Massata Diack.

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Lamine Diack, a onetime politician in Senegal who became the powerful head of the IAAF, the international organization governing track and field, only to be convicted in a corruption scandal linked to bribes to cover up positive drug tests by athletes, died Dec. 3 at his home in Senegal.

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Diack was president of the IAAF, now World Athletics, from 1999 to 2015 after holding several political positions in Senegal.

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His conviction in France last year marked a spectacular fall from grace for a man who led World Athletics, then known as the IAAF, for nearly two decades and was an influential figure in the world of Olympic sports.

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World Athletics, which was then known as the IAAF, announced in 2018 it would introduce the rules.

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