Lamine Diack, one-time leader of the international athletics organization, dies aged 88

Lamine Diack, a one-time Senegalese politician who became the powerful head of the IAAF, the international organization that governs athletics, was only convicted in a corruption scandal involving bribery exposed to cover up the athletes’ drug testing, died on 3 December at his home in Senegal. He is 88 years old.