Russian Federation trying to reform on doping — IAAF taskforce head

The IAAF, which governs world athletics, said it welcomed UKA’s contribution and would review its ideas.

It added: “No doping case has been covered-up by the IAAF”.

With the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics coming up, the Olympic movement’s keystone sport is reeling from revelations of widespread doping in Russian athletics.

“The integrity of athletics was challenged as never before in 2015”, said Ed Warner, the chairman of UK Athletics.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) is now opposed to lifetime bans for athletes and its current code is not due to be revised until 2021. They can increase the risk of clots, strokes and heart attacks.

UK Athletics is the only one among the Diamond League organisers to have a policy of not inviting athletes who have previously been found guilty of a serious anti-doping violations. Well-known elite athletes likely to win medals in London would be disciplined “in strict conformity” with IAAF anti-doping rules.

She offered the recommendation that any positive test should lead to action against the athlete and their actions.

– Before the 2009 worlds, Weiss also alerted Balakhnichev that Russians were evading tests by saying they were in the military and couldn’t tell testers where they were. The IAAF later tells the AP this note was sent by Dolle to Habib Cisse, who was the legal counsel to IAAF President Lamine Diack.

UKAD chief executive Nicole Sapstead said she will discuss the suggestions with UK Athletics “when the opportunity arises”.

The IAAF faces another week of potentially devastating headlines with the publication of the Wada independent commission’s second report in Munich on Thursday into the doping scandal to have engulfed athletics. Says athletes are telling the IAAF they’re serving in the military and can’t give their whereabouts. “At least I didn’t know and didn’t hear about there being any”. The 2012 follow-up note was from Dolle to Diack, Turner said.

It follows a number of doping and cover-up allegations.

It additionally proposed publishing a public worldwide register of drug checks, the criminalisation of the availability or procurement of efficiency-enhancing medicine and calling for WADA to maintain a register of all missed checks. The source believes the documents show that the governing body tried to do its job in dealing with Russian Federation and that many people inside the organization were aware of and involved in that effort before the IAAF’s abrupt U-turn last November, when its council voted 22-1 to ban Russian Federation. Balakhnichev was banned for life by the IAAF last week following allegations of involvement in a plot to extort money from athletes seeking to avoid doping bans. Also under investigation for suspected corruption are Cisse and Dolle.