The McLaren report into corruption at the IWF was finally released, and so we decided to read it all and summarise the whole thing. The key points are: 1) Tamas Aján’s “autocratic authoritarian leadership of the International Weightlifting Federation resulted in a dysfunctional, ineffective oversight of the organisation by the Executive Board”. 2) Aján used his control of the money to control everything else. 3) Aján interfered with the drug testing system. 4) Over forty hidden anti-doping cases were found and forwarded to WADA. 5) The Hungarian anti-doping organization HUNADO was not complicit or responsible for the problems. 6) IWF financial records are a mess
The last two electoral congresses were “rampant with vote buying for the President and senior level positions of the Executive Board”