Dick Pound, the veteran IOC member, has said French prosecutors should follow the trail of corruption “wherever it leads” after they confirmed an investigation into alleged seven-figure payments from the successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid to a secret account linked to the son of the disgraced former IAAF president Lamine Diack. French prosecutors confirmed they were examining a string of potential
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