Seb Coe’s aide steps aside from IAAF role to allow ethics investigation

“What has become apparent today is that I have become the story.”

Nick Davies, Seb Coe’s right-hand man at the IAAF, has announced he will step aside from his role as the director of the president’s office while an ethics board investigates allegations of unethical behaviour against him.

French newspaper Le Monde has obtained a copy of an email sent by Davies, the IAAF’s former director of communications and now assistant to president Coe, in which he appears to seek to delay the identification of Russian drug cheats in the run-up to the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.