World Athletics Suspends Russia Readmission Process
November 22, 2019
3:26 pm
World Athletics announced on Friday it had suspended the reinstatement process of Russian athletics and was contemplating expelling the country entirely from the sport.
The news comes a day after the president of the Russian athletics federation (RUSAF) and other senior officials were suspended for “serious breaches” of anti-doping rules, putting the nation’s track and field athletes’ participation at next year’s Tokyo Olympics in further danger.
The head of World Athletics Sebastian Coe described those banned as ‘renegade factions’.
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