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FILE - Lamine Diack adjusts his headphones during a joint IOC and IAAF news conference on the site of the World Athletic Championships in Beijing on Aug. 21, 2015. Lamine Diack, the controversial former president of the International Athletics Federation, has died, his family said Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. He was 88. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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FILE - In this June 7, 2019, file photo, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach arrives to meet French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Bach is planning a trip to Japan November, 2020, to meet with new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and organizers of the postponed Tokyo Olympics, Tokyo Olympic CEO Toshiro Muto said Friday, Oct. 9. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
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