DOHA, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The meeting between the IAAF Council and the IOC Executive Board was described by the IOC President Thomas Bach as "very fruitful" here on Friday.
"We had the opportunity to exchange a number of points of view, and to envisage joint efforts on a number of topics," said Bach, who met with the president of IAAF Sebastian Coe on Friday when the World Athletics Championships kicked open in the Qatari capital.
"First of all the question of how to maintain and strengthen the relevance of the sports among the youth. How we can attract the young people to do the sport, and in this case athletics, " Bach added.
The two parties discussed a number of topics, especially the anti-doping fight for the Olympic Games.
He said the IOC "is very much interested to catch any cheats before an Olympic Games and has again initiated a pre-testing programme for Tokyo in order to make the Games as clean as possible."
