January 31, 2017 at 08:36PM
• Davies found not guilty of corruption but admits he ‘had not been truthful’
• Email from 2014 from Coe said: ‘I have been made aware of allegations’
Lord Coe’s closest confidant, Nick Davies, has been sacked from his job at athletics’ governing body after lying to investigators about receiving secret payments totalling €30,000 from the disgraced former IAAF marketing executive Papa Massata Diack. However Davies, who was named Coe’s chief of staff when he became IAAF president in 2015, will be allowed to work in track and field again after the sport’s ethics board found him not guilty of corruption.
The decision came on a day when Coe faced renewed questions over when he became aware of corruption within the International Association of Athletics Federations, after fresh emails showed him referring to “serious allegations” involving the Russian athlete Liliya Shobukhova in August 2014 – four months before they became public.
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