Olympic Games: Prosecutors to probe 2016 and 2020 bids
The crisis engulfing world athletics has taken a new twist with the bidding and voting processes for the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games to be investigated by French prosecutors as part of a wider probe into corruption in athletics.
The investigation by French authorities has so far seen former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Lamine Diack arrested after allegedly protecting Russian athletes who had failed drugs tests, while a number of other officials have also been placed under arrest.
Prosecutors are now looking into the processes that saw the 2016 and 2020 Olympics awarded to Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo respectively.
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