Diack confident of sport's future under new chief

Outgoing IAAF president Lamine Diack is confident about the future of athletics as the sport prepares to elect his replacement on Wednesday.

Former Olympic champions Sergey Bubka and Sebastian Coe are in a head-to-head race to succeed the 82-year-old Diack, who has run the governing body for 16 years.

"I am all the more confident of what we have in store," the Senegalese told the opening day of the 99th IAAF Council meeting.