Ukraine’s Sergei Bubka retained his vice presidency position of the IAAF world athletics federation on Wednesday after a chaotic voting session which initially had eliminated the former pole vault champion. During a day of voting and revoting because of faulty and slow electronic equipment, Lamine Diack was re-elected to a new term as president of the IAAF. Since he ran unopposed, it was the only clear-cut decision on Wednesday while voting on most other positions will spill over into Thursday’s second day of the Congress. The federations at the Congress voted on the second attempt to give the Senegalese a 169-29 mandate for a new term

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