Beijing: Doping is a “scourge” and “sport is dead” if track and field fans don’t believe what they see, outgoing IAAF president Lamine Diack (left) has warned in an interview with AFP.

Speaking ahead of the vote by the 214 member federations of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to choose either Sergey Bubka or Sebastian Coe as their new president, Diack spoke of his admiration for Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt, but also lamented the fact that doping continued to remain a massive issue.