Despite negative appeal by former doping mastermind turned whistblower, Grigory Rodchenkov that no Russian athletes should be allowed to take part in the postponed Tokyo Olympics next year. Russia’s athletics federation on Tuesday sent a letter to the world athletics body, asking them to delay a planned review after it failed to pay a doping fine. […]
The chance of Russian given window to participate in Tokyo 2020 Olympics is tickling away by day as Russian Athletics Federation vice President, Eduard Bezuglov said that they don’t have sufficient funds to pay the fine. To make the matter worst, the World Athletics said on Monday it had shot down a request by Russia’s athletics federation to […]
The corruption case involving Lamine Diack, former president of International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) now World Athletics has now be moved back by five days. The Paris trial of Diack who is accused of accepting millions of dollars to cover up positive Russian doping tests, has been moved to 8 June, a judicial source told […]