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Seb Coe grilled by British Parliament over IAAF issues

LONDON (AP) — During a three-hour grilling at a British parliamentary hearing, IAAF President Sebastian Coe said Wednesday he is unsure whether Qatar’s successful bid to host the 2019 World Track and Field Championships was clean.

Coe’s hesitation about Qatar’s bid came exactly five years to the day since the Gulf nation won the right to host soccer’s 2022 World Cup in a vote by FIFA’s widely-discredited executives.

The House of Commons committee which quizzed Coe about Qatar — in a hearing that largely centered on doping allegations — has previously alleged corruption in Qatar’s FIFA bid, but a case has never been proven.