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Papa Massata Diack, son of Lamine Diack the former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) now known as World Athletics, speaks at a press conference in Dakar, Senegal Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. The son of the former head of world track and field's governing body again denounced the corruption and money laundering charges against himself and his father Monday, with a verdict in the trial in France expected to be delivered on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Diack’s son calls French sentences ‘denial of justice’

By BABACAR DIONE - Associated Press

FILE - Iin this Jan.13, 2020 file photo, former president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack arrives at the Paris courthouse, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. A Paris court is delivering its verdict Wednesday Sept. 16, 2020, in the trial of Lamine Diack on corruption, money laundering and breach of trust charges against the one-time supremo of global track and field athletics, and according to prosecutors, creamed off millions for himself, with his son.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Former IAAF head Lamine Diack sentenced to 2 years in prison

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Former president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack arrives with his lawyer William Bourdon, right, at the Paris courthouse, Monday, June 8, 2020. A sweeping sports corruption trial opened Monday in Paris involving allegations of a massive doping cover-up that reached to the top of world track and field's governing body. Lamine Diack, 87, who served as president of the body for nearly 16 years, is among those accused of receiving money from Russian athletes to hide their suspected doping so they could compete at the Olympics in 2012 and other competitions. His son Papa Massata Diack is also charged in the case. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Diack’s son claims conspiracy as corruption verdict nears

By BABACAR DIONE - Associated Press

Former president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack, center, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Monday, June 8, 2020. A sweeping sports corruption trial opened Monday in Paris involving allegations of a massive doping cover-up that reached to the top of world track and field's governing body. Lamine Diack, 87, who served as president of the body for nearly 16 years, is among those accused of receiving money from Russian athletes to hide their suspected doping so they could compete at the Olympics in 2012 and other competitions. His son Papa Massata Diack is also charged in the case. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Trial of Diacks exposes dark backdrop of track golden era

By JOHN LEICESTER and JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Diack trial: Prosecutors request 4 years in jail, big fine

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Former president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack, right, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. A sweeping sports corruption trial opened Monday in Paris involving allegations of a massive doping cover-up that reached to the top of world track and field's governing body. Lamine Diack, 87, who served as president of the body for nearly 16 years, is among those accused of receiving money from Russian athletes to hide their suspected doping so they could compete at the Olympics in 2012 and other competitions. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Diack at corruption trial: I should have been more vigilant

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Former president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack, left, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. A sweeping sports corruption trial opened Monday in Paris involving allegations of a massive doping cover-up that reached to the top of world track and field's governing body. Lamine Diack, 87, who served as president of the body for nearly 16 years, is among those accused of receiving money from Russian athletes to hide their suspected doping so they could compete at the Olympics in 2012 and other competitions. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Former IAAF president turns on son at corruption trial

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Former president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack, right, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. A sweeping sports corruption trial opened Monday in Paris involving allegations of a massive doping cover-up that reached to the top of world track and field's governing body. Lamine Diack, 87, who served as president of the body for nearly 16 years, is among those accused of receiving money from Russian athletes to hide their suspected doping so they could compete at the Olympics in 2012 and other competitions. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Corruption trial points to origins of Russian doping saga

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Former president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diack arrives with his lawyer William Bourdon, right, at the Paris courthouse, Monday, June 8, 2020. A sweeping sports corruption trial opened Monday in Paris involving allegations of a massive doping cover-up that reached to the top of world track and field's governing body. Lamine Diack, 87, who served as president of the body for nearly 16 years, is among those accused of receiving money from Russian athletes to hide their suspected doping so they could compete at the Olympics in 2012 and other competitions. His son Papa Massata Diack is also charged in the case. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Massive sports corruption case finally heard at Paris trial

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2015, file photo, then-IAAF president Lamine Diack adjusts his headphones during a joint IOC and IAAF news conference on the site of the World Athletic Championships in Beijing. One of the biggest sports corruption cases to reach court is being heard in Paris. The trial will hear allegations that Russian athletes paid millions of dollars to cover up their suspected doping in order to compete at the Olympic Games in 2012 and other competitions. Accused recipients of the payments include Lamine Diack, who presided for nearly 16 years at track and field’s governing body. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Former IAAF president’s corruption trial opens in Paris

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Mrs. Rousseff is joined by Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral in greeting supporters during a campaign rally at Rio's Center of Northeastern Traditions on Sept. 26. Election Day is Oct. 3. (Associated Press)

Sergio Cabral says he bribed Olympic Committee to get Rio de Janeiro Games

By Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov.12, 2011file photo, President of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Lamine Diak poses at 2011 World Athletics Gala Awards, in Monaco. French legal authorities have decided to hold a trial for Lamine Diack, once one of the most influential men in Olympic sport, who was disgraced by investigations that uncovered corruption, extortion and doping cover-ups during his 16-year reign as head of the world governing body of track and field. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

France to try former IAAF boss Diack and his son

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

BeIN media group CEO charged in corruption probe in France

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Former IAAF boss Lamine Diack facing new charges in France

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 5, 2011, file photo, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge, right, meets with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, left, and Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, center, in Durban, South Africa, ahead the opening ceremony for the 123rd IOC session that will decide the host city for the 2018 Olympics Winter Games. Samsung has denied a media report it launched illicit lobbying to help bring the 2018 Winter Olympics to Pyeongchang, South Korea. (AP Photo/Rajesh Jantilal-Pool, File)

Samsung denies Pyeongchang Olympic lobbying allegation

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FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 file photo, Russian Athletics Federation President Valentin Balakhnichev, right, and deputy mayor of Moscow Alexander Gorbenkov, left, attend the closing ceremony at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia. Life bans for the son of former IAAF President Lamine Diack and Russia's former top track and field official have been upheld in a doping and bribery case. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday Aug. 21, 2017, it dismissed appeals by Papa Massata Diack and former IAAF treasurer Valentin Balakhnichev against bans by the governing body. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Life bans upheld for 3 officials in doping, bribery case

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FILE - In this Aug.21, 2015 file photo, then IAAF president Lamine Diack adjusts his headphones during a joint IOC and IAAF press conference on the side of the World Athletic Championships in Beijing. The French office that handles financial prosecutions says Wednesday Nov.4, 2015 Diack has been placed under investigation on corruption and money-laundering charges, suspected of taking money from Russia to hide doping positives. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Russia, track & field to be targeted in Pound’s WADA report

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday Nov. 5, 2015, France's national financial prosecutor Eliane Houlette poses for a photographer during an interview with The Associated Press at her office in Paris, France. Houlette discusses the French judiciary’s investigation into what she called “a system of corruption” at the governing body of track and field. (AP Photo/John Leicester)

APNewsBreak: Diack son ‘very active’ in IAAF corruption

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press