WADA concerned by new allegations in Russian doping scandal

Weiss also alerts Balakhnichev that blood tests point to “a problem with many of your athletes, in particular in the race walking events”.

The elections end an 11-month tenure by acting president Vadim Zelichenok, who replaced longtime federation chief Valentin Balakhnichev previous year. He asks the Russian athletics federation president “to contact each athlete and inform them individually on their abnormal blood profile, sending them a strong and clear message which could ultimately be a deterrent”.

“I’ll never agree with the records being wiped because I know 100 per cent that at least one of those records was achieved clean and that means more were, too”, Radcliffe told The Guardian. In the letter, dated October 14, 2009, Weiss described the results of blood tests taken at that year’s world championships in Berlin and the world half-marathon championships in Birmingham, England.

Blood tests of the Russian athletes, Weiss added, “recorded some of the highest values ever seen since the IAAF started testing”.

Pound called documents indicating that IAAF officials considered not disclosing doping bans were surprising and “not exactly in line with our rules”, The AP reported. He says the situation is “so serious” that “immediate and drastic action” is needed.

The IAAF taskforce has completed its first visit to Russia after two days of “frank and open discussions” with the Interim Coordination Committee (ICC) of the Olympic Committee over the issues which led to Russian athletes being banned.

Two internal IAAF papers before the London Olympics proposed not publishing doping sanctions for lesser-known Russians.

The British Olympic Association previously had a lifetime ban for drug cheats, but the policy was struck down after the World Anti-Doping Agency found the rule non-compliant with its code. The note specifies that this would be contrary to usual IAAF practice.

The IAAF said on Tuesday that the December 2011 note was sent by the IAAF’s anti-doping director at the time, Gabriel Dolle, to Habib Cisse, who was Diack’s legal counsel, and that the follow-up note in 2012 was from Dolle to Diack. It specifies that the IAAF would be breaking its own rules by doing this.

– member federations should be accountable for loss of prize money to athletes of other nationalities if their own athlete’s medal winning result is later annulled. “Their withdrawal from competition wouldn’t necessarily attract attention”.

-July-August, 2012: Russian Federation wins 17 medals in track and field, second only to the United States, at the London Games, including eight golds.

-Dec. 3, 2014: German television documentary “Top Secret Doping: How Russia makes its Winners” alleges sophisticated, well-established system of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups in Russia. That prompted a World Anti-Doping Agency probe.

Diack was arrested by French authorities in November and placed under criminal investigation.

“I felt sad and angry and now it feels as if we are waiting to be slaughtered (by Thursday’s report), but it’s better that it has all come out”, said Barlag who, after sharing the same track as Sebastian Coe at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, now stands shoulder to shoulder with the IAAF president in seeking radical reform to save it fom the biggest crisis in the sport’s history. It found Russian government complicity in systematic, widespread cheating. Russian Federation is now banned from all global competition, and it’s believed the country may have to sit out the 2016 Rio Games due to the scandal.