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Russian accepts IAAF doping ban
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The Russian athletics federation has accepted its ban from the sport in the wake of widespread doping revelations, the International Association of Athletics Federations said yesterday.
The IAAF Council was meeting in Monaco yesterday, with the crisis surrounding doping and connected corruption the No. 1 item on the agenda.
“IAAF Council was today informed that written confirmation had been received yesterday from ARAF (All Russia Athletics Federation) accepting their full suspension without requesting a hearing as was their constitutional right,” the IAAF said in a statement.
“ARAF confirmed they understood that Council would only accept their reinstatement as an IAAF member following the recommendation of the IAAF inspection team who will decide if the verification criteria have been fulfilled. ARAF confirmed they will cooperate fully with the team.”
Russia was banned on the recommendation of an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency after it discovered systematic state-sponsored doping and cover-ups in the country.
Earlier, IAAF president Sebastian Coe, who is at the center of controversy over his links to Nike, admitted that the process by which the 2021 world championships were awarded to Eugene in the United States was wrong, The Times newspaper reported yesterday.
The report came amid mounting pressure on Coe in Monaco over the Oregon-based multinational sportswear firm.
Bjorn Eriksson, who led a rival bid by Gothenburg for the 2021 worlds, said Coe phoned him on Wednesday to say it had been wrong to give the event to Eugene without a formal bid process, The Times reported.
Coe stressed, however, that he had not been responsible for the decision that was made in April, the report said.
Eriksson also said Coe had indicated that the Eugene award was being probed by French police as part of a corruption inquiry into the IAAF leadership of Lamine Diack, who stood down in August.
Diack is also under investigation over allegations that he took bribes from Russian officials to cover up positive drug tests by athletes. “If I understand Sebastian Coe correctly, he said, ‘I agree that the procedure wasn’t correct’, but he claims he wasn’t involved in this,” Eriksson said.
Coe had been a strong supporter of Eugene’s bid for the 2021 championships and was part of the IAAF council that voted this year to abandon the normal bidding process.
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