“It gives us the breathing space to focus on Rio Olympics at the strength the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya and initiate education programmes for athletes on doping”, Wario said.
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“Clean athletes’ dreams are being destroyed because of the reprehensible behavior of other athletes and officials”. They have sacrificed years of their lives striving to compete at the Olympics and now that sacrifice looks likely to be wasted.
The IAAF council, chaired by president Sebastian Coe, made its decision after receiving a recommendation from a five-person task force, headed by Norway’s Rune Andersen, that had been monitoring Russia’s reform efforts.
Rodchenkov said last month he took part in a scheme involving government security officers to swap Russian athletes’ urine for clean samples at the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
“I will appeal to the human rights court”, she said, without specifying in which court she planned to challenge the ruling.
Just a couple days ago, a new report from the agency claimed that anti-doping officials in Russian Federation are being stopped from testing athletes and are also being threatened by security services.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday there should be no collective punishment for Russian athletes and that doping should not be politicised or used to push an anti-Russian agenda.
The Russian team was banned from global competition after WADA accused Russia of state-sponsored doping.
In a reaction, IAAF acknowledged that Coe had received information about doping allegations while he was still IAAF deputy chief, but the athletics body stressed that Coe had reacted appropriately by forwarding the material to its Ethics Commission.
The allegations follow revelations in The Times that two positive tests by Russian swimmers for the blood-boosting drug EPO were never reported.
A meeting is set to be held on Tuesday in Lausanne where officials from the International Olympic Committee and other sport federations and anti-doping bodies to consider “whether and if individual athletes should be given individual justice”. The IAAF already extended the ban once, in March, when its inspection team reported that Russian Federation had not made adequate progress on reforming its anti-doping efforts.
Canada’s athletics federation also urged a tough stand, saying that Russian track and field athletes should not be allowed to compete at Rio. A ban of the whole country could be on the table, but International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has said he would not speculate about that happening.
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What else is being decided: The IAAF is also set to consider the case of Yuliya Stepanova, a Russian runner turned whistleblower.
