'They Can't Suspend Anybody' - IAAF Boss Diack Lashes WADA Over Jamaica's Drug-Testing Issue

MONTE CARLO, Monaco:
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) aren't quite seeing eye to eye these days.
IAAF President Lamine Diak (right) gives Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt his 2013 Athlete of the Year Award yesterday, during the 2013 World Athletics Gala Awards in Monaco. - AP
IAAF President Lamine Diak (right)
gives Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt
his 2013 Athlete 
President of the IAAF, Lamine Diack, has added his voice to what has been described as a ridiculous campaign against Jamaica and Kenya.
Diack, speaking to journalists ahead of last night's IAAF Gala and Awards ceremony at the Salle des Etoiles here, insisted that the heavy-handed approach and focus by WADA on Jamaica was unwarranted and believes it to be part of a larger attack on the sport of track and field.
"Stop all this nonsense!" said Diack. "Everyone knows the strength of Jamaica in the sprinting, especially, it didn't start in Usain (Bolt). read more

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