International Olympic Committee chief savaged for saying Russian Federation to compete in Rio

The IAAF Council said at its latest meeting on Friday that a report prepared by the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) on the struggle against doping was unsatisfactory and decided by a majority of votes to suspend Russia’s membership in the global athletics association. “Sport is saying to us “Your money should be increased” but they are not doing it in the same proportion”. A similar measure was used at last year’s Winter Olympics for Indian athletes after their national Olympic committee was suspended for government interference.

Currently, WADA gets the bulk of its information about the efficiency of a country’s anti-doping program from questionnaires filled out by policymakers in the countries themselves.

IAAF president Lord Coe has admitted he should have seen the warning signs before athletics became engulfed in a doping crisis.

Meanwhile, Namibia’s former Olympic sprinter Frankie Fredericks will be part of the the IAAF inspection team to check on the reforms Russian Federation need to implement to have their ban lifted. No time frame was set.

In response to McLaren’s comments, the IAAF said focus was on making the Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) “compliant for re-entry into worldwide competition”.

The iNADO leaders have no confidence all that can happen before August 12, 2016 – the day track and field starts at the Rio Olympics. Reedie said while WADA had “punched above its weight” in the first 16 years of its existence, there was broad recognition that the body required greater resources to tackle doping effectively. This would mean making the The Moscow Centre for Sports Technology – the laboratory at the centre of cover-up and sample destruction allegations – WADA compliant and Zhukov has pledged that this would be achieved as “soon as possible”. WADA doesn’t have direct say in the eligibility of Russia’s track team. The IAAF announced that the case had been referred to its independent ethics commission.

The ministry promised “extensive changes” over the next three months at the federation whose officials and coaches were accused in the WADA report of supplying top athletes with drugs and helping to hide failed doping tests.

“To know the person ahead of you has been taking a bag of blood or injecting drugs into them into the leadup to the competition, it’s just depressing really”.