Russian bank ends sponsorship deal with IAAF

Russian bank ends sponsorship deal with IAAF

Russia's second-largest bank VTB announced today it would not renew its sponsorship contract with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) but insisted the decision has nothing to do with the current doping scandal its athletes are at the centre of.












Mike Rowbottom: Fetid FIFA - and now the IAAF house needs an airing. Any thoughts, Lord Acton?

Mike Rowbottom: Fetid FIFA - and now the IAAF house needs an airing. Any thoughts, Lord Acton?

Like fetid fumes, bad news continues to emanate from the citadels of power in world sport - with the seemingly endless fug of the FIFA investigation now casting itself over the shoulders of the great Franz Beckenbauer, and the International Association of Athletics Federations’ ex-President Lamine Diack newly announced as being under investigation by French police and the International Olympic Committee’s Ethics Commission following allegations of corruption.