Russian high jumper Maria Lasitskene has taken the rare step of publicly critici...
MOSCOW - Russian high jumper Maria Lasitskene has taken the rare step of publicly criticizing her country’s suspended athletics federation for what she says is a lack of progress toward reinstatement four years into a doping scandal.
“The situation bothers me because I don’t see any movement,” Lasitskene told Reuters in an interview, adding that some officials at the federation had not shown “a desire to change.” The country’s federation has been suspended since a 2015 World Anti-Doping Agency report containing evidence of mass doping in the sport.
The IAAF, the international body governing athletics, extended Russia’s suspension in June and said a Reuters report that showed banned Russian coaches were still working with athletes would be investigated. Lasitskene said she did not think the federation would be reinstated into world athletics in time for Doha.
“Cleaning up your own house would help, to put order in the federation, the national team,” she said. “That should have been done long ago.”
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