SYDNEY : World Athletics will look at the issue of Russian athletes competing while the Ukraine war continues only after it has been decided whether the country has cleaned up its act on doping sufficiently to be reinstated, Sebastian Coe said on Friday.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is facing
SYDNEY : World Athletics will look at the issue of Russian athletes competing while the Ukraine war continues only after it has been decided whether the country has cleaned up its act on doping sufficiently to be reinstated, Sebastian Coe said on Friday.
The Russian Athletics Federation has been banned from athletics since 2015 as a result of the country's widespread doping, although some athletes from Russia were allowed to compete at the last two Summer Olympics as neutrals. "The Council will discuss the roadmap for reinstatement but specifically around the egregious attack on the integrity of our sport through doping," Coe told reporters at the world cross-country championships in Bathurst, New South Wales.
That said, Coe thought it unlikely that the blanket ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes imposed last year, including a suspension of the option to compete as a neutral, would be lifted.
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