Frankie Fredericks suspended from athletics over alleged ethics breach
London — Former Namibian sprinter and IAAF Council member Frankie Fredericks has been provisionally suspended from athletics, pending an investigation into a potential ethics violation, the sport’s governing body said on Monday. Fredericks is being investigated by the Athletics Integrity Unit over payments he received from Papa Massata Diack, the son of former International Association of Athletics Federations president Lamine Diack, on the day Rio won the vote to host the 2016 Olympics. Earlier this year, Fredericks — an International Olympic Committee member — stepped down as head of the team evaluating bids to host the 2024 Olympics and has also removed himself from the IAAF task force investigating doping allegations in Russia, after the corruption allegations surfaced in Le Monde newspaper.
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