Press conferences held on the eve of sporting events tend towards the anodyne – unless, of course, you get the likes of Jose Mourinho or Sir Alex Ferguson laying their snares for officials or rival managers, wily as poachers.

No such subterfuge was in evidence here in Doha, where the media event heralding the opening IAAF Samsung Diamond League meeting of the season tomorrow involved a batch of game, if vague, athletes, and officials including the IAAF President Lamine Diack and his counterpart within Qatar athletics, Abdullah Al Zaini.

As such, the event offered a glimpse of the difficulties involved in trying to organise sporting events in an increasingly busy and disparate environment.

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Source: Inside The Games via Trackandfieldnews.com