Lasitskene And Shubenkov Lead Russian Athletes’ Rebellion
January 7, 2020
5:18 pm
Four Russian athletes, including three-time high-jump world champion Mariya Lasitskene, on Tuesday urged their fellow competitors to challenge their country’s athletics body over its handling of its doping ban.
Lasitskene, alongside 2015 110m hurdles world champion Sergey Shubenkov, pole vault world champion Anzhelika Sidorova and former hammer thrower Sergey Litvinov, is looking to use RUSAF’s long-dormant Athletes Commission to speed up changes within the governing body.
Launching a new Instagram page for the commission, the group urged fellow athletes to “work together” to “change Russian athletics’ current situation”.
Last month the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) decided to ban Russia from …
