If this doesn't sink Coe nothing will

Why is it so hard for sports federation to hire officials who will NOT have their own business on the side, inter-connected with their position?

If you're an ex-athlete and career sports administrator, just accept the 6-figure pay, the trips, the attention, etc. Make some money on the side as a public figure at best, but don't even allow any suspicion to be drawn over other activicties. Ruling a sport is supposed to be a full-time job.

Name one federation president who don't have risk of conflicted interest or even a channel to extract more money and power from their role?

jx10 wrote: This IAAF stuff is small potatoes. If you only knew...

Please, tell us all about it. Details matter.

jx10 wrote:ps.. we need Coe and the influence of British corporate connections to drive the sport forward.

Define "forward." Collect bigger bribes? Permit more doping? "forward" by Coe's standard is entertainment wrestling.

You aren't breaking any new ground with your dismissal. The IOC's worldwide monopolies with no transparency and broadcast revenue is heady primer for all kinds of corruption.

Sith Lord Coe wrote:

Why is it so hard for sports federation to hire officials who will NOT have their own business on the side, inter-connected with their position?

If you're an ex-athlete and career sports administrator, just accept the 6-figure pay, the trips, the attention, etc. Make some money on the side as a public figure at best, but don't even allow any suspicion to be drawn over other activicties. Ruling a sport is supposed to be a full-time job.

Name one federation president who don't have risk of conflicted interest or even a channel to extract more money and power from their role?

Hein Verbruggen.

Oh, wait. He gets paid AND remains cycling's dark overlord.

Coe's got this one.

The idea that Coe did not know of the corruption around him is so far-fetched as to be beyond believability. The man served as the FIFA ethics committee chair-person during the time the 2018 and 2022 world cups were bought and didn't see anything then either, even as the evidence was plain to anybody who was paying attention.

A possibly awkward situation appears on the horizon and Coe's wingman Davies already proposes Coe's marketing agency to the guilty party to nudge public opinion and transparency.

Surely the first time? Surely beffore pondering the option with Coe first? He's got an agency, what else is it good for than swaying sports public knowledge and attitude towards athetics and Russia?

It's bad enought his option is considered in writing.

No other companies companies are suggested. Why Coe's? Why the risk of being seen and partial in doping and transparancy? With IAAF pick up the bill from Coe? Is that OK? Would Coe do it for free? Refuse payment from either IAAF or Russia, doing it for the love of His Sport?

Surely Davies doesn't get kick backs from Coe's agency.

UK will never do this, but what about a legal probe into his business and financials?

A case of corruption could not be more clear. And Davies is not even fired, merely releaved temporarily (kept on the pay roster, alliance assured).

Now, whomever interceped these emails, and the covert list of doping est results, they are releasing proof bitt by bit. we've seen this from wikileaks and whistleblowers. They don't necessarily play all cards at once, risiking one big coverup or deflection swiping it all under the rug. We may well not have read the worst.

Another thing to consider is the extortion of Russian and Kenian dopers. Did these become the first to disappointed, and fail payment, resulting in public defamation? Aren't westerers or richJamaicans targeted, at all? Imagine how lucrative this would be. If you can hack the IAAF, or just fill up an USB stick from a work station during off-hours, you have a gold mine that can keep on giving. Someone like Bolt can afford a nice life time retainer. The one-time buy-off he might not trust, or be able to afford.

I kind of wish that dirty stars are being extorted to the point of breaking but more realistic is that a pure sports fan is doing this. Like the emails (2 very unrelated cases) that got leaked from Adrienne Herzog on her multi-substance abuse over a long period. Simply came from boyfriends who felt the truth needed to be known by the sport. One was joining the police academy and wiped his slate clean by going to press with their email exchanges. Another just f'd her over double time. Didn'tt even attempt to do it in secret.

So there are true sports fans outing dopers and perhaps corrupticians.

Few know what comes next. Perhaps only Coe is being extorted, and Davies' shaming is just a warning shot after reluctance to play ball. Coe gets to pay, resign and retreat under the rock he crawled under from. But feels too good for that. Now gets to deal with the Davies situation. Awkward.

Coe served on FIFA's ethics comittee I heard? Yeah and Saudi Arabia is chairman of human right within the UN now. While slaughtering the whole nation of Yemen, an unreported genocide. Obama hold the Nobel Peace Prize. It alll doesn't exactly guarantee impartiality, to say the least.

Who really cares.

Of far more import, Rahm Emaneul, Evil Emperor of Chicago, refuses to step down.