Still uncertain is whether the Russian federation will be able to reform in time for its athletes to compete at the Rio Games, which run from August 5-21.
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“The IAAF has informed us they will take the necessary measures”.
Today’s ruling applies only to track and field athletes.
“VTB has expressed no interest to extend its present contract, the last event of which was the IAAF World Championships in Beijing. We’ll work with them”.
The United States’ representative on the IAAF council called suspending the Russian track team “the only proper course of action”.
“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”, Hightower said.
The IAAF, he said, needed to live up to its responsibilities as an important player on the world sports stage but it must take it “case by case, person by person”. “The commission itself writes about it in its report”.
“Our reaction is calm”, Mutko told The Associated Press.
It was alleged that Russian athletes bribed Lamine Diack, a former President of the worldwide Association of Athletics Federations, in order to manipulate sporting competitions.
The vote was 22-1.
People walk at the building where Russia’s anti-doping agency, RUSADA, in Moscow, Friday, November 13, 2015.
The fallout from the WADA report’s damning conclusions reached as far up as Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered officials to launch their own internal investigation and cooperate with worldwide anti-doping authorities.
“It makes me angry”, added Coe, a two-time Olympic 1,500-meter champion from Britain.
Isinbayeva says “all my victories are honest, “clean” and deserved”.
Nike sponsors the Oregon Project, an athletics training group whose coach, Alberto Salazar, has been accused of violating doping rules.
“The situation around the Russian athletics team is very sad”.
Confronted by allegations of widespread doping among its track and field athletes, Russian Federation has given signs that it will admit to at least a few wrongdoing and, regardless of future sanctions, will not boycott the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics.
She also said that banning the entire Russian track and field team was “absolutely unacceptable” and marked “an attempt to introduce the principle of collective punishment into the area of sport”.
Track’s governing body will decide Friday on whether to suspend Russian Federation, which could lead to a possible ban from next year’s Olympic track events.
The global Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is expected to issue a ruling on Friday that will determine Russia’s participation in the upcoming Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, and Russian officials are lobbying hard ahead of the ruling to preserve Russia’s standing.
The Russian Olympic Committee has asked a key figure in Russia’s doping scandal to resign from its executive board.
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”.
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An anti-doping commission report alleging corruption, cover-ups, extortion, bribery and systematic use of drugs in international-level athletics furthers the impression that all sport is corrupt.
