Germany's athletics chief on Thursday said his country is likely to have paid a price for its tough anti-doping stance and recent doping revelations on German television as it missed out on an IAAF council seat after 20 years.
Clemens Prokop said he was disappointed the DLV, the world's biggest national athletics federation by membership, did not get voted onto the council of the world athletics ruling body on Wednesday when Briton Olympic champion Sebastian Coe was elected as its new president.
"I don't know exactly why but I have three reasons," Prokop told ZDF Television, speaking from Beijing, where the world athletics championships will take place.