Lord Coe gave "misleading" answers to parliament over when he first found out about corruption and doping allegations in athletics, a report by MPs says.
The president of world athletics' governing body, the IAAF, told a select committee in December 2015 he was "not aware" of specific allegations of corruption in Russian athletics before they were made in a German TV documentary in December 2014.
Coe said in an email to the IAAF ethics commission in August 2014: "I have now been made aware of the allegations."
Monday's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee report said "it stretched credibility to believe" that Coe was not aware "at least in general terms" of allegations the ethics commission had been asked to investigate before he said he was.
The BBC's Panorama programme revealed in June 2016 that Coe was alerted to the scandal by former world 10,000m record holder David Bedford via email in August 2014 when Coe was a IAAF vice-president.
Source : bbc
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