Athletics lurched deeper into crisis on Friday with the showcase sport of the Olympics scrapping its year-end gala after French officials began investigating the ruling body's former president for corruption. Elsewhere, track and field glamour nation Kenya was warned that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was serious about a possible four-year ban unless athletics officials stepped up anti-doping efforts. A double Olympic champion also criticised the inaction of new IAAF president Sebastian Coe and suggested the sport's doping scandal was at least as damaging as the ongoing corruption probe into soccer's world governing body FIFA or the Lance Armstrong cycling controversy. More...