IAAF provisionally suspended Russian Federation from World Track and Field Events

The Russian Anti-doping Agency (RUSADA) will have to prove it can operate “independently of Russia” if the Russian team is to participate in the Rio Olympics, according to Dick Pound, author of the damning World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) doping report.

It could also affect the country’s preparations of 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“We will propose to the ROC to ask the IAAF and the global Olympic Committe (IOC) to allow our athletes to compete under our Olympic Committee flag”, ITAR-TASS news agency quoted Mutko as saying.

“I’m happy to take that suggestion to our executive committee on Tuesday and, with a bit of luck, we will get a few way ahead”, said Reedie, who admitted such a body may require additional financing. The first competition to be affected by the ban will be the European cross-country championships in France in December.

“We will continue to work alongside WADA with whom we developed the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) to review its processes and, if any failings are found, redress them and we have already begun a root and branch reform program within the IAAF”, Turner told R-Sport on Sunday.

The IAAF said priority for both the governing body and Russian Federation was to make ARAF “compliant with the IAAF”.

Bach and the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, reached agreement on a roadmap for Russia to follow to become compliant with rules of the IAAF and WADA.

Anti-doping crusaders losing ground in the war on drugs in sport will meet this week to discuss dramatic new battle plans including a more robust role for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). “The corruption in Russian athletics deserves no less”, INADO, the Germany-based umbrella organization with 53 members worldwide, said in a statement.

“It was meant to divert the blow from themselves” he said. Our proposal to the Russian Olympic committee…is to have our “clean” sportsmen taking part in other competitions while our participation at Rio is suspended for the time being.

Former IAAF president Lamine Diack is being investigated by French police over allegations he received bribes to cover up positive doping tests of Russian athletes.

The decision to suspend Russian Federation, Coe said, was made amid an atmosphere of “sadness and anger” and “the recognition that unless we fully grasp the enormity of our plight there were unlikely to be many tomorrows for athletics”.