UK Athletics also said in A Manifesto for Clean Athletics that serious cheats should face life bans. “And the challenges, especially from drugs cheats, show few signs of receding”.
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British officials suggested that national federations be forced to reimburse any prize money won by athletes from their nations if those athletes are subsequently found to have cheated. “Trust in the sport is at its lowest point for decades”, he added later.
“We have today continued our frank and open discussions with representatives of ARAF and the Interim Coordination Commission, led by Mr Gennady Aleshin”, Andersen, a Norwegian and former director of standards and harmonisation at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), said.
UK Athletics has made 14 proposals including the IAAF bringing in a new set of world records based on performances in the new “Clean Athletics” era.
A monitoring delegation from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) begins on Monday its two-day inspection visit to Moscow on the process of reformations in the All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF).
“The sport feels really let down by the IAAF at the moment”, Moorcroft told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Sportsweek programme.
“The IAAF offers this analysis not to try to downplay or distract from the allegations of corruption in the IC report but only to reassure the athletics community that it is not been failing to take effective action in the fight against doping”.
UK Athletics (UKA), the ruling body of British athletics, made nine key recommendations, including resetting the record books and banning drug cheats for two Olympic cycles.
Radcliffe, who set the women’s marathon record with a time of 2 hours, 15 minutes, 25 seconds at the 2003 London Marathon, was cleared by the IAAF previous year of doping allegations following media reports of suspicious blood tests.
“We need collectively as a sport to think more radically”.
In addition, the talks covered “whereabouts” information and “rigorous testing” of Russian athletes, as well as other measures “to embed a new culture of zero tolerance for doping in Russian athletics”.
They also claim that Wada should maintain a public global register of all drugs tests and recommend that suspensions be extended to a minimum of eight years.
On Friday, the IAAF sent a 30-page response to the independent commission’s first report, which uncovered what it called state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation and which saw the IAAF accused of “systemic failures”.
– Athletes from the leading athletics nations to have a valid blood/biological passport to compete in a world athletics championship.
UKA had planned not to release any further information until formal investigations by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) and (Ukad) were complete, but Warner said “the need for transparency overrides our previous position”.
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An IAAF statement said: “We welcome this framework from UKA and look forward to engaging in their process for moving it forward”.
