NICK DAVIES is among three senior staff provisionally suspended by the IAAF Ethics Board after the international governing body opened a formal investigation into suspicious payments made.
MARK SHEARMAN
Davies (below), a former close advisor of Seb Coe’s, has been given a 180-day ban after it was alleged he received an “undisclosed” payment from Papa Massata Diack, son of the former IAAF president Lamine Diack, to suppress reports of Russian doping.