European Athletics set to follow UKA lead and examine results in bid to wipe records

European Athletics chiefs are ready to follow UK Athletics and call for a review of the current record books, putting pressure on Seb Coe and the IAAF to look at radical ways of restoring credibility to the sport. 

Sportsmail understands the European Athletics Association will appoint a task force to look at the European records, some of which are held by athletes from the Eastern Bloc but also from Great Britain. 

IAAF president Coe, Mo Farah, Steve Cram, Colin Jackson, Jonathan Edwards and Paula Radcliffe are among them.

Seb Coe could be put under more pressure after it emerged European Athletics want to examine records

The European Athletics Association will look at the European records, with Paula Radcliffe among them

Mo Farah is another Great British athlete whose European record will be looked at by a task force

On Monday the UK's governing body sparked a huge debate about the future of the sport with their 14-point manifesto, with a call to erase the current world records and essentially start again in a 'clean new era' for athletics.

The IAAF responded only with a holding statement but UKA bosses will find they have the backing of the European body on Tuesday, with the second half of the independent WADA report into the doping crisis coming on Wednesday. The sport is in crisis. 

On Tuesday night the Associated Press claimed they had seen an email that suggested in 2012 former IAAF president Lamine Diack – now being investigated by the French authorities for allegedly blackmailing athletes to conceal positive tests – received an internal brief estimating that '42 per cent of tested Russian elite athletes doped'

It also highlighted concerns, claim AP, about doping in 'Turkey, Spain, Morocco and Ukraine'.

On Tuesday in Kenya, where a number of British distance runners are training, UKA officials had to request that Turkish athletes believed to be convicted dopers leave the training camp, Sportsmail also understands.

Ex-IAAF chief Lamine Diack is under investigation by the French authorities for extorting money from athletes

UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner has called on athletics to 'face up to the scale of the problem'