“Lord Coe” to visit Oregon, lobby Gov Brown and legislature for IAAF subsidies

Update: Diane Dietz reports Track Town’s Vin Lananna will ask the state to double the hotel tax, to pay the IAAF’s demands. In the RG here:

The forecast budget includes state tax dollars to pay for:

$7.2 million for prizes

$14 million to host the broadcast

$9 million for accommodations

$6 million for the festival outside the event gates

$4 million to add seating to Hayward Field

$5 million for security

The 2016 Oregon Legislature would have to approve the expenditure, and the governor would have to sign off, too.

UO pays Lananna $450K, Track Town pays him another $335K, and he gets another $30K or so direct from Nike, or so he told the NCAA. Actually he got a little confused about the difference between an amount and a percentage – but whatever, Rob Mullens signed off on it anyway:

 

Fortunately UO’s got a strong Code of Ethics, which covers Lananna’s behavior.

12/29/2015: Or that was the plan in November:

But given Seb Coe’s current problems,

I’ll go out on limb and predict he’s not going to show for this January 13th meeting in Salem: