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Former President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamine Diack is surrounded by journalists as he arrives with his lawyer Simon Ndiaye for the verdict in his trial at the Paris courthouse, France, on Sept. 16, 2020. Charles Platiau/Reuters
PARIS—Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics’ governing body, was convicted in France on Wednesday of corruption in a Russian doping scandal and sentenced to spend at least two years in jail.
Diack, 87, was found guilty of taking bribes from athletes in return for orchestrating the cover-up of test results that enabled them to continue competing, including in the 2012 London Olympics.
