Independent integrity unit in charge of monitoring track (Yahoo Sports)

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Among the many issues that made the Russian doping scandal so difficult to detect, then fix, was that track and field's own leaders were mixed up in the corruption. To prevent repeats, the IAAF created the Athletics Integrity Unit, an independent operation that will oversee track's effort to combat doping and other areas of corruption. The International Olympic Committee and several winter sports are moving toward emulating what track and cycling have done.

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