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Once Kim snagged her gold medal, Cocoa Cinnamon took it farther, naming a churro ice cream sandwich in her honor. The Chloe Kim is two tightly coiled churros sandwiched around a scoop of vanilla ice cream from Durham ice cream shop, The Parlour. It looks kind of like a gold medal covered in rainbow sprinkles.
\n\n\n@chloekimsnow We're so inspired by your gold medal performance that we made a churro ice cream sandwich with rainbow sugar sprinkles. It's two warm freshly made churro spirals with our local @parlourdurham vanilla ice cream (regular or vegan) and rainbow sprinkles! #TheChloeKim pic.twitter.com/Sp4qeCO3Fp
— Cocoa Cinnamon (@cocoacinnamon) February 16, 2018
Cocoa Cinnamon has expanded to three Durham coffee shops owned by husband and wife Leon Grodski de Barrera and Areli Barrera de Grodski. Their third shop opened last summer in Durham’s Lakewood neighborhood, adding coffee roasting and churro-making to the operation. N&O Restaurant Critic Greg Cox named it the best coffeehouse in the Triangle this year.
Reaching out to Kim was all Leon’s idea, they said, compelled to send the good vibes of digital churros thousands of miles across the globe to Korea. Leon’s churro offer was name dropped in The Washington Post, alongside other branding efforts of appliance companies and butcher shops.
Grodski de Barrera’s love of the Olympics goes deeper than tweeting food-related congratulations. In his high school years, Grodski de Barrera was one of the top badminton players in the country, even living for months at an Olympic training facility in Michigan as the United States built up its youth program. The experience makes him more than a passive viewer.
“The cool thing it does for me is give me the insight and appreciation for her incredible story,” Grodski de Barrera said. “You gather how much these folks are working out, their extreme discipline and dedication, while having some fun.”
He never competed in the Olympics, but said he could relate to the training regimen, of competing and traveling across the country. The Olympics explore the limits of human potential, he said, in the way Einstein pushed science and NASA discovers worlds. Peering into that once long ago makes him a better businessman today.
“Of all the crazy things humans do with their bodies, why do we do this thing, what possesses humans to fling themselves down a mountain,” Grodski de Barrera said. “I’m a better business owner because of it. It made me extremely disciplined, showed me what it means to fight through ups and downs, how to live with people around the world, to be self reliant, to travel. All of that is at the essence of entrepreneurship.”
So far, Kim hasn’t made any moves to claim her Durham churros, but her ice cream sandwich will likely be perfected if she ever dropped by.
“I had five yesterday,” Grodski de Barrera said – all in the name of research.
Drew Jackson; 919-829-4707; @jdrewjackson
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Italy’s Olympic team risks the humiliation of being placed on probation for the Tokyo Games if the country’s sports minister does not back down amid a two-year-long dispute that amounts to government interference, IOC president Thomas Bach said.
In an extraordinary step designed to put pressure on Vincenzo Spadafora, Italy’s sports minister, Bach also suggested that the alleged interference could — under extreme circumstances — result in the country being stripped of hosting rights for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Bach has taken issue with the Italian government’s creation of a new organization, Sport e Salute, that was created at the start of last year to run the country’s sports finances, which were previously controlled by an arm of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI).
“We are very concerned about the situation of CONI and the functioning of CONI, and these concerns are growing, because the IOC executive board had to address these questions,” Bach said during a meeting with Italian media on Sunday at the cycling world championships in Imola.
A proposed new law would strengthen Spadafora’s power even further, according to CONI.
“At the beginning of the month we had to write a letter to the minister of sport expressing these serious concerns,” added Bach. “With this law CONI is not compliant with the Olympic Charter.”
CONI says that funding issues have negatively affected Italian athletes’ preparation for the Tokyo Games, which were postponed a year to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
CONI has traditionally run all sports in Italy, deciding how to divide up millions of dollars of state funding to each of the country’s national sports federations. Now, Sport e Salute handles that responsibility, with 280 million euros ($325 million) handed out for 2020.
Spadafora replied late Sunday that he found it hard to believe that Bach had actually read the proposed law.
“If that’s really not the case, point out with absolute clarity which points do not respect the Olympic Charter,” Spadafora said. “Otherwise, avoid dragging the IOC into a debate that is really not very edifying for such an important institution.
“And if for Bach the autonomy of the Olympic Committee in Belarus is not up for discussion then don’t even bother with Italy,” Spadafora added.
The IOC and other global bodies, such as soccer’s FIFA, typically threaten suspension when calling out government interference in the independent management of sports in order to put pressure on lawmakers to back down.
However, the IOC often cites its refusal to get involved in domestic politics when national sports bodies are run by government officials. Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko has long led the now-troubled country’s national Olympic committee.
Possible punishments could include preventing Italian athletes competing in Tokyo from wearing their national team uniforms and from hearing their national anthem being played.
Countries whose national Olympic bodies have been suspended for recent Olympics include Russia at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games for a massive doping scandal; and Kuwait at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games for political interference.
“We are also very much concerned on what a non-functioning CONI and CONI not being in compliance with the Olympic charter means for the preparations for the Olympic Winter Games Milano-Cortina in ’26,” Bach said. “CONI is the signatory of the host city contract and needs to be in a position to work as a full functioning NOC and it’s just not possible that any national Olympic committee would have to buy services at a private company.”
Spadafora said that he wrote to the IOC recently explaining that the portions of the proposed new law that Bach had been concerned about had been resolved. As for the Milan-Cortina Games, he suggested that Bach should be more concerned over “a conflict of interest\" since CONI president Giovanni Malagò is also the president of the games’ organizing committee.
If CONI is suspended, meetings and cooperation between the IOC and organizers of the Milan-Cortina Games could be stopped.
An IOC coordination commission is visiting Milan and Cortina this week and Bach said there are “serious concerns\" over the sustainability of the sliding center and the speedskating oval.
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AP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report.
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Exactly how the Games will happen is another story, and it's likely to be unclear well into next year. Bach said last week that the International Olympic Committee will not be “pressured” to give details early on how this can be pulled off. This includes questions about fans from abroad, fans in the venues, vaccines, and so forth.
“Nobody can expect from us that we know already exactly what needs to be done 10 months from now to ensure a safe environment for everybody,” Bach said speaking remotely from Switzerland to Japanese government officials, organizers, and sponsors.
So where do the Tokyo Olympics stand? Here's a quick look.
Q: Is a vaccine needed for the Olympics to happen?
A: Everyone from Bach on down is saying “no.\" But Bach last week said he expects “hundreds of millions of doses” of a vaccine to be available in the first half of 2021. That could solve many problems. But it also raises giant ethical questions.
Should young, healthy athletes be a priority for the vaccine, which would help the IOC hold the Olympics and fulfill lucrative contracts with broadcasters who have paid billions for the rights?
Should athletes be at the front of the line ahead of health-care workers and vulnerable populations? And, should athletes be compelled to take a vaccine? What if an athlete gets vaccinated and gets ill and misses Olympics?
Both Bach and IOC Vice President John Coates have said that an athlete testing positive at the Tokyo Olympics for COVID-19 would need to be removed from the Games. They said new rules will be needed for this, and rules that might also compel athletes to be vaccinated.
“If an athlete tests positive for COVID, then there has to be a provision to take that athlete out of the games in the same way — not the same stigma, but in the same way we replace athletes with doping problems,” Coates said.
Q: Are domestic sponsors staying on board? Recruited by giant Japanese advertising company Dentsu Inc., domestic sponsors have contributed a record $3.3 billion to the organizing committee's privately funded operating budget — about 60% of its income.
A: Organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto acknowledged for the first time Friday that some domestic sponsors have backed out. “I can't say that all contracts have been renewed,\" he said.
Any shortfall in this privately funded operating budget will have to be made up from somewhere else. Overall, in combined private and public money, Tokyo says it is spending $12.6 billion on the Olympics. But a government audit says the cost could be twice that much.
\n And this month a study from the University of Oxford says Tokyo is the most expensive Summer Olympics on record.\n
On top of this, estimates suggest the cost of the one-year delay could be several billion more. Organizers have yet to give any official numbers, and the meter is running.
Q: Organizers say they are simplifying the Tokyo Olympics to save money. What has been cut?
A: The simplifications so far looks modest. A preliminary list was presented Friday and includes: fewer shuttle buses; smaller banners and decorations around the venues — except areas visible on television; a 10-15% reduction in the size of delegations; downgrading hospitality lounges; 14% reduction in office space, and so forth.
Big items are unchanged. The opening and closing ceremonies might be more somber, but will be untouched — a staple of television. The 121-day torch relay stays, driven by major sponsors Toyota and Coca-Cola. All athletic events and the quota of 11,000 Olympic and 4,400 Paralympic athletes is unchanged.
Muto said he does not know the cost savings of the simplification. Last week, the Mainichi newspaper said it would be between 1-2% of overall official costs — several hundred million dollars.
“We have no figures at hand at this juncture,” said Muto, a former deputy governor of the Bank of Japan. He said cost estimates would be presented next month at an IOC executive board meeting.
Q: Under what conditions will athletes be able to enter Japan for the Olympics?
A: Tokyo Olympics officials are proposing the government relax immigration regulations to allow athletes to enter the country before next year’s postponed games and train during a 14-day quarantine period, Muto has acknowledged that athletes might have to use public transportation in Japan, suggesting a complete “bubble” would be impossible.
He also noted the pandemic is at very different stages in many countries — as is testing. Athletes would be expected to be tested before they leave home, and then be tested again in Japan. He also raised questions about the reliability of tests, depending on the country.
Q: How has COVID-19 affected Japan?
A: Japan has handled it better than most countries. It has attributed about 1,600 deaths to COVID-19, a relatively low numbers in a country with 126 million people. Almost everyone wears masks in indoor spaces, and also outdoors. Japan has strict travel measures in place and denies entry to visitors from 159 countries. Restrictions will be relaxed starting in October.
Japanese television TBS has reported Japan will hold a gymnastics event in early November. It said athletes will come from the United States, Japan, Russia and China, and said there would be no 14-day quarantine requirement.
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The 2020 Games were postponed as the coronavirus spread worldwide, and there’s been widespread doubt about their future.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a prerecorded speech at the U.N. General Assembly that he will “spare no effort in order to welcome you to Games that are safe and secure.”
Surveys have shown that a majority of Japanese companies and the public don’t think the Olympics will, or should, happen next year. A poll published in June by Japanese broadcaster NHK said two-thirds of sponsors were undecided about extending for another year.
Keeping domestic sponsors on board is financially critical, and Japanese leaders have been eager to signal the Games' viability next year.
Recruited by Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc., domestic sponsors have paid a record $3.3 billion — at least twice any previous Olympics — to the local organizing committee. That's on top of a dozen permanent Olympic sponsors who have signed long term with the International Olympic Committee. Some also have individual contracts with Tokyo organizers.
Japanese organizers are saying little, however, about how 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes, staff and officials will be safe with no vaccine or treatment for the virus yet available.
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Simplifying the Tokyo Games has been a pledge of the International Olympic Committee and local organizers since COVID-19 forced the unprecedented delay six months ago. Local estimates suggest the delay will cost several billion dollars, most of which will be borne by local taxpayers.
“It's like a glass half-filled, or half empty,” Yoshiro Mori, the president of the organizing committee, said while speaking in Japanese at the end of two days of on-line meetings with IOC officials.
Some will see the cut as positive, and some will have expected much more, Mori said.
The cost savings are a relatively small item with much of the major focus in the next several months on what countermeasures to take against the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes rules for athletes entering Japan, the question of fans at venues, possible quarantines and the availability of vaccines.
All are still up in the air — and might be even into next year.
Mori suggested some might have expected more reductions, but he said major cuts were difficult because of IOC contracts already in place with broadcasters and other stakeholders. Organizers originally talked of 200 items to cut, but have settled initially on 50.
“Maybe we could have done something more bold or daring,” Mori said.
Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto was asked how much was being saved by the simplification.
“We have no figures at hand at this juncture,” he said, adding he hoped to have those details for the IOC executive board when it meets in October.
A report earlier this week by the Mainichi newspaper said the savings would be at most 1-2% of the official operating budget, which is $12.6 billion.
However, a government auditor says the real spending is twice that much, and earlier this month the University of Oxford released a study saying Tokyo is the most expensive Summer Olympics.
Some of the simplifications include: reducing “stakeholder delegation” size by 10-15%; canceling a portion of an IOC meeting that takes place before the Olympics; shortening the main press center availability by eight days; reviewing transportation for stakeholders; canceling the welcome ceremony at the Olympic Village; toning-down the overall look of the venues and Olympic Village; and reducing office space by 14%.
Officials repeated that no cuts would be made to athlete numbers — 11,000 for the Olympics and 4,400 for the Paralympic — nor the number of events.
Other items unlikely to be cut include the 121-day torch relay, which is sponsored by Coca-Cola and Toyota. The opening and closing ceremonies — popular with broadcasters — will also be largely untouched, but the mood will be subdued because of the pandemic.
IOC vice president John Coates, who oversees Tokyo preparations, said some rule changes will have to be made to deal with athletes who might test positive for COVID-19 in Tokyo and be forced into quarantine.
“If an athletes tests positive for COVID, then there has to be a provision to take that athletes out of the games in the same way — not the same stigma, but in the same way we replace athletes with doping problems,” Coates said. “And if we get a vaccine, there will be agreements that they (athletes) will accept vaccines.\"
IOC President Thomas Bach, addressing Japanese officials on Thursday, suggested a vaccine could be ready for the Olympics, which open on July 23, 2021.
“In the first couple months of next year we will have different vaccines,“ Bach said. “They will be available in very considerable doses.”
He said this could amount to hundreds of millions of doses being available in the first half of the new year.
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Bach was speaking from Switzerland in an on-line gathering of officials in Japan during the first of two days of meetings focused on how to pull off the delayed Tokyo Games.
Bach pointed out that major sports events like the Tour de France have been held with limited fans and without the vaccine. But he said a vaccine — or vaccines — could be ready for Tokyo, although he gave few details.
“We have very encouraging news about the development of a vaccine — and not only a vaccine, but vaccines,” he said.
Bach added that the International Olympic Committee was in contact with the World Health Organization and other “experts\" and unnamed pharmaceutical companies. He said they were \"unanimous\" in saying that a vaccine will be available at the beginning of next year.
“In the first couple months of next year we will have different vaccines.\" Bach said. “They will be available in very considerable doses.”
Bach said this could amount to “hundreds of millions of doses being available already in the first half of the next year.”
A handful of vaccines already are in final testing in the United States and other countries, and hopes are high they might be ready by the end of the year. Bach has previously said he was also in contact with Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac.
Bach did not tackle the big ethical question: Should young, healthy athletes be a priority for a vaccine, ahead of health workers and vulnerable populations? And will athletes want to take a vaccine, fearing they might fall ill days before competing?
Speaking for about 15 minutes, Bach tried to assure Japanese organizers — and the Japanese public and sponsors who have been skeptical that the games will happen — that planning is on track.
Domestic sponsors have contributed $3.3 billion to the local operating budget, and polls suggest many are reluctant to renew their contracts.
Surveys have shown a majority of Japanese companies and the public don't think the Olympics will happen next year — or should happen.
Back repeated several times that next year's games have to be “fit for the post-Corona world.” He said the Tokyo Olympics were the “best prepared” in history, but that will not be enough.
“We cannot just repeat the great work you have been doing, or copying it and slightly adapting it. We have to adapt it to this new world,” Bach said.
He also said the IOC and local organizers would not be rushed to reveal details of exactly how the Tokyo Olympics will take place. He said many scenarios were in play, and might be up until the opening ceremony.
“Nobody can expect from us that we know already exactly what needs to be done in 10 months from now,\" he said. \"This work will continue until the day of the opening ceremony because it is new for all of us.”
He also pointed out that many countries are in different stages of COVID-19, and in the reliability of their testing.
“This is not only about the conditions in Japan and the conditions for travel to Japan,” he said. “This also concerns the conditions in the 205 other national Olympic committees.”
The two-day meeting this week come as Japan's Kyodo news agency has reported more details about the bribery scandal that seemed to have helped Tokyo land the Olympics in 2013. It forced the resignation last year of Tsunekazu Takeda, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee.
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“We have to consider the uniqueness of the athletes and also their activities,\" Muto said, speaking in Japanese following a meeting of a task force considering countermeasures against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The International Olympic Committee, Tokyo city and national government officials, and members of the organizing committee are holding virtual meetings on Thursday and Friday focused on finding ways to hold the delayed Olympics during a pandemic.
The organizing committee and the IOC have said for months they are considering many scenarios for how the games can open on July 23, 2021, but have offered nothing specific.
IOC President Thomas Bach, who will address the online meetings on Thursday, has said a vaccine and rapid testing would help, but added there is no “silver bullet” that will allow the Olympics to automatically happen.
Bach and new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga spoke for 15 minutes on Wednesday, the foreign ministry said. They talked about pulling off the games, and Bach said he hoped to soon visit Japan.
Muto summed up dealing with so many disparate and often competing interests representing 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes, officials, coaches, sponsors — not to mention the question of Japanese and foreign fans.
“How we are going to decide is something we have to decide,” Muto said. “But we haven't discussed by when we have to decide.”
Muto said a report would be forthcoming in December, after talks with the IOC, national Olympic committees, sports federations and myriad other parties including broadcasters, athletes, sponsors and medical officials.
He acknowledged that athletes might have to use public transportation in Japan, suggesting a complete “bubble” would be impossible.
And he raised the issue of how the pandemic is at very different stages in many countries — as is testing. Athletes would be expected to be tested before they leave home, and then be tested again in Japan.
“Depending on the country, the reliability of the testing is still an issue,” he said. “The accuracy of the tests may not be uniform.\"
Left unsaid so far is an official estimate of what the one-year delay will cost. Most estimates suggest several billion dollars, most of which falls to Japanese taxpayers.
The two-day meetings come the same week that the Japanese media reported again on the bribery scandal tied to the Tokyo Olympics. It forced the resignation last year of Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda.
\n The University of Oxford also released a study last week saying that Tokyo is the most expensive Summer Olympics on record.
Japan has recorded about 1,500 deaths from COVID-19, much lower per capita than the United States, Brazil, or India.
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To make the point this week, IOC President Thomas Bach will join a number of Japanese government and city officials, local organizers and other top International Olympic Committee leaders in repeating a message they've failed to convey forcefully enough to deep-pocketed sponsors: Trust us, the Tokyo Olympics will open on July 23, 2021.
Bach and IOC vice president John Coates — who oversees Tokyo preparations — are expected to speak remotely to Japanese officials as they meet on Thursday and Friday. The agenda includes plotting countermeasures against COVID-19: quarantines, rules for athletes entering the country, testing, vaccines and the presence or absence of fans.
Few firm details are expected until late in the year or early in 2021, which accounts for the uncertainty.
The subtext is assuring sponsors that the Olympics will happen. Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto has acknowledged the word's not getting out.
“The fact the Olympics are going to take place — the fact itself — is not fully distributed to the public,\" Muto, speaking in Japanese, said last week. \"People need to be more convinced that, yes, the Olympics will be taking place for sure.”
A former deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, Muto has been vague about how many domestic sponsors are renewing their contracts. He says of the 68 sponsors: \"They are all positive.”
”We're still in the middle of negotiations. We're not in the phase of speaking about any concrete results,\" he said.
Surveys have shown a majority of Japanese companies and the pubic don't think the Olympics will happen next year — or should happen. A poll published in June by Japanese broadcaster NHK said two-thirds of sponsors were undecided about extending for another year.
Keeping domestic sponsors on board is financially critical. Recruited by the giant Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc., domestic sponsors have paid a record $3.3 billion — at least twice any previous Olympics — to the local organizing committee. This is over and above a dozen permanent Olympic sponsors who have signed long-term with the IOC. Some also have individual contracts with Tokyo organizers.
John Grady, who teaches sports law at the University of South Carolina, said the postponement has “created countless problems and ripple effects.\"
“With the uncertainty of the Tokyo Games occurring with few or limited fans, local sponsors would be right to be cautious in investing more sponsorship dollars if they cannot reach fans on site,” Grady wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “The lack of a wider international fan base that is typical at an Olympics would shrink the global audience who has access to seeing local sponsors’ activation efforts around Olympic venues in the host city.”
Despite the uncertainty, it will be difficult for sponsors to step away in a country where conformity and teamwork are valued and national loyalty could be called into question.
Japan also has a long history of supporting the Olympics, and many in decision-making roles recall fondly the positive impact of the 1964 Tokyo Games, which showed the country's rebirth just 19 years after defeat in World War II.
“There's a strong underlying narrative that this event is really good for the country,” Robin Kietlinski, who teaches and researches Japanese sports and history at LaGuardia Community College in New York, said in an interview with the AP.
“I think there is almost historic pressure to have it go smoothly and to benefit Japan in some way,\" she added. “Whether that's financially, or whether that is getting their companies seen. There is something, too, about the rising China and — especially compared to 1964 — how Japan is somewhat in the shadow of this huge economy next door.”
Japanese organizers are saying little about how 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes, staff and officials will be safe in Tokyo.
“The environment, when it comes to Tokyo, will be different than from the environment today,\" Bach said this month. “We only do not know which way.”
Bach has said that even if rapid tests and a vaccine were available, they will not be the “silver bullet.\"
A study last week from the University of Oxford showed Tokyo to be the most expensive Summer Olympics dating from 1960. And the meter is still running.
The Kyodo news agency also reported again this week on more details about the bribery scandal that seemed to have helped Tokyo land the Olympics.
David Leheny, who teach politics as Japan's Waseda Univeristy, suggested “hard-fought” talks are taking place with sponsors.
“My guess is that there will be a round of negotiation for lighter sponsorship contracts, with the firms holding most of the cards on the terms if they remain cohesive,” Leheny said in an email.
“The organizers don’t want to give up on any sponsors but also don’t want to look like extortionate bullies in the midst of a pandemic/recession ... none wants to be the first to be seen as abandoning them.\"
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The payment is reported to be part of $2 million transferred by the bid committee to Black Tidings, a now shuttered consulting company based in Singapore.
Tsunekazu Takeda, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee at the time, acknowledged signing off on the $2 million payment.
Takeda denied any wrongdoing, but the issue forced him to resign from his position in 2019 amid the looming investigation by French authorities. He also resigned from the International Olympic Committee.
Kyodo said that in an interview with the news agency, Papa Massata Diack said the money he received was from a sponsorship deal in China and had nothing to do with Tokyo.
The payments to Papa Massata Diack are new findings based on reporting by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and several news organizations, including Kyodo.
Lamine Diack, who is from Senegal, was believed to have influence over IOC members from Africa. Tokyo won the 2013 final vote of the IOC at a meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, beating out Istanbul.
The 87-year-old Lamine Diack is the former head of the governing body of track and field, which is now known as World Athletics. He was convicted of corruption last week in France in relation to a Russian doping scandal and sentenced to two years in prison, with another two years suspended. The scheme allowed Russian athletes who paid millions in bribes to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping.
Papa Massata Diack, Diack's son, was also found guilty of corruption and sentenced to five years in prison in his absence. The younger Diack lives in Senegal, which didn't extradite him.
At the trial, the judge said $15 million was funneled to Papa Massata Diack’s companies, including commissions and money creamed off contracts and the sale of TV rights and other transactions while his father was in charge of the track body.
Papa Massata Diack has denied corruption, and called the trial a conspiracy against himself and his father. Appearing at a news conference in Dakar on Monday, he also hinted he had knowledge of wrongdoing at other sports bodies, including the IOC, and would speak out against people who tarnished his father's image.
“I know a lot of things in the world of sport,” he said, without alluding to what he meant.
The Tokyo Olympics has been postponed to next year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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