But while, as it stands, the sanction also rules Russia out of competing in next year’s Rio Olympic Games, early indications are that the Russians will accept their punishment and work towards fulfilling the criteria required in order to reinstated in time.
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Russia’s IAAF council member, Mikhail Butov, addressed Friday’s meeting but did not take part in the vote.
The IAAF voted 22-1 in favor of provisionally suspending Russia from global track and field competition effective immediately, just days after a bombshell report by WADA uncovering a systematic doping program among Russian athletes.
Russian athletes have been suspended from all worldwide competitions with immediate effect after the IAAF council voted for their removal in the wake of recent doping revelations. This is the first time that a country has been suspended from IAAF.
Sky News understands he will press for the maximum penalty he can impose in the short-term – a provisional suspension – ahead of full disciplinary proceedings that could be held next month.
The main athletics events in 2016 are the world Indoor Championships, the European athletics championships and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Russian Federation hopes to prevent its athletes being banned from next year’s Olympics by claiming “irregularities” around its drug-testing system were down to the sport’s “old leadership”.
Mutko, in comments to Russia’s R-Sport agency, says “we are prepared to re-certify the laboratory, or to reform, or to create a new anti-doping organization, we’re prepared for broad cooperation”.
ARD further alleged that a third of medals (146, including 55 golds) in endurance events at the Olympics and World Championships between 2001 and 2012 were won by athletes who have recorded suspicious tests but none of these athletes have been stripped of their medals.
And Rooney, Great Britain’s team captain during the summer’s World Athletics Championships said if Coe didn’t know anything when he was vice-president, then he was “not doing his job properly”.
Rune Andersen, an independent anti-doping expert, along with three members of the IAAF council, will be appointed by the beginning of next week to lead an inspection into Russian doping.
Russian Federation will not be entitled to host the 2016 World Race Walking Team Championships (Cheboksary) and 2016 World Junior Championships (Kazan)*.
“It is entirely up to the Russian federation and Russia to enact those changes”, Coe said.
Athletics’ governing body is discussing what action to take against Russian Federation after they were accused of “state-sponsored doping”.
“But I hail the fact that they’re allowing us to express ourselves”.
Pound talked of “out-of-control” coaches and how Moscow lab chief Grigory Rodchenkov had destroyed 1,417 doping samples prior to a WADA visit, and called for Russian athletes to be banned from worldwide competition.
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“The IAAF has an obligation to protect athletes, and this action sends a clear message to clean athletes that protecting them and protecting the sport, with a culture of accountability, is our top priority”, said Stephanie Hightower, the president of USA Track and Field.
