Lamine Diack Quotations

It's the biggest event, except for the Olympics. The world will be here. The world is coming to Osaka.

It is particularly sad to hear that she has passed away while we are here in Helsinki for the IAAF World Championships, but it is also appropriate to honour her memory in the presence of the world's greatest athletes.

We will do our utmost to show our commitment in the fight against doping. We plan to have the most ambitious and comprehensive system of testing ever activated at a world championships.

It was a great moment. So we hope for a moment like that...here in Osaka.

I am delighted to see such strong interest from so many different parts of the world.

I was told I shouldn't have come to Moscow.

This was a very decisive victory by Berlin and demonstrates that the council was convinced that we are taking our most important competition to the right place. When Berlin lost in their effort to bid for the 2005 edition of these championships, I was delighted to see that they immediately vowed to come back, and they really deserved it this time.

This is a great loss, ... and our thoughts now go out to the family and friends of Colette Besson. I believe that she made a tremendous contribution to world athletics, as a charismatic and determined athlete in an age when women's athletics was still developing.

This is a landmark CAS decision and one that the IAAF welcomes as it continues to pursue its anti-doping fight with the utmost vigor.

We'll literally have the world's best athletes here in Osaka. This will be a good opportunity for young Japanese athletes to see what the world is like.