IAAF’s 5-person panel for Russian Federation reforms

Fallout from the WADA Independent Commission report into allegations of widespread doping, corruption and collusion in Russian athletics will dominate the agenda when WADA’s executive committee and foundation board meet on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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.

“Why do people like me have to suffer from the mistakes of irresponsible athletes?” three-time Olympic medallist Isinbayeva told reporters.

“More irresponsible athletes should themselves decide their problems and let them be punished”.

“The toughest question I grapple with is inevitably a very personal one, self-examination is never easy”, he said.

Russian Federation has set up a taskforce to wipe out the “infection” of doping in track and field as the country faces being banned from next year’s Olympic competition.

“We watched the developments in our kind of sports and the IAAF decision”.

“Could I, should I have inserted myself into the three independent investigations?”

“Far too many clean athletes have been robbed of medals the last two years”.

“Why should athletes like I suffer from others’ mistakes?” I’m in a good physical shape.

“I am interested in all the proposals which will appear after the Olympics”, Isinbayeva said. The vote follows the release of a World Anti-Doping Agency-funded report on November 11 that announced a state-sponsored doping program.

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.

In December 2014, German TV Channel ARD aired a series of documentaries on alleged doping abuse in Russian sports. Until then, athletes like Shubenkov, who has never tested positive for any performance enhancing drugs, will be left out of global championships.

Among those on the way out of the federation is acting president Vadim Zelichenok a veteran athletics official whose career dates back to the Soviet Union and who was criticized in the WADA report for obstructing investigators.

Sergei Shubenkov, world champion in the 110-meter hurdles, said he fears suffering the same fate as his mother, heptathlete Natalya Shubenkova, who missed the 1984 Olympics because of the Soviet boycott.