PARIS – A sports corruption trial involving allegations of doping cover-ups and illicit payoffs at the top of track and field opened Monday in Paris.
In six days of hearings, the Paris court is due to hear evidence that Russian athletes paid millions of dollars to hide their suspected doping so they could compete at the Olympics in 2012 and other competitions.Lamine Diack, who served as president of the sport’s governing body for nearly 16 years, is one of the alleged recipients of the payments.