Lamine Diack, the president of the IAAF, returned from Sochi with the conviction that cross-country had a serious chance of soon joining the Olympic program. A conviction reinforced by the discussions during the IOC session, where the program for the 2020 Games was mentioned several times. “We will continue to fight for this,” he explained. At the IAAF headquarters in Monaco, a team is monitoring this issue very closely. » Lamine Diack clarified that cross-country could just as easily appear on the program of the Winter Games as on that of the Summer Games.
— Published March 9, 2014
