Frankie Fredericks to be part of IAAF inspection team in Russian Federation

However, he believes it doesn’t have enough time to get its house in order before the Rio Olympics in August next year.

The Independent Commission, which is chaired by WADA’s founding president Dick Pound, was formed after the broadcast of an ARD documentary – ‘Top-secret doping: How Russian Federation makes its winners’ – in December 2014. He also says he is ready to clean up the troubled athletics federation if necessary.

Gemili, who yesterday graduated with a 2:1 in sports and exercise science from the University of East London, admitted he would like to see other countries adopt the UK Anti-Doping Agency’s rigorous testing model.

-The agency could beef up its compliance and investigative staff to give the agency the ability to look into problems while they are current, not after the fact.

WADA, with a current annual budget of $31 million, has previously dismissed the plan as unrealistic saying it would need hundreds of millions of dollars to take on such a massive logistical challenge.

The Australian Olympic Committee declined to comment on the matter. “That wouldn’t be WADA’s fault, it would be the fault of the constituents”.

On Tuesday, WADA temporarily removed its accreditation of Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory following a recommendation from the commission.

The WADA Foundation Board is to meet to discuss the growing crisis in the sport, following the Russian doping scandal. Any of these moves has potential to nearly debilitate a country’s sports program or the sport itself.

Much of the meeting, however, is expected to be spent taking a clinical look at the current structure set up to combat doping.

Russian track and field stars including renowned pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva on Monday denounced as “completely unfair” the decision by the worldwide Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to provisionally suspend Russia. IAAF also stands accused of “systematic failures” and its former president Lamine Diack is under investigation on suspicion of corruption. If that’s a harbinger, WADA could have ample evidence to justify decertifying IAAF. Russias track and field athletes will be cleared to compete in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August, only if the country falls into line with all global anti-doping rules and the reforms are independently verified, IOC President Thomas Bach said in an interview Sunday November 15, 2015, with The Associated Press. “We hope our team will be reinstated”. The IAAF announced that the case had been referred to its independent ethics commission.