Russian Olympic chief calls for full overhaul of athletics federation amid doping probe

[ASFN Admin]

The head of Russia's Olympic Committee on Monday called for a full overhaul in the leadership of the country's suspended athletics federation after the sport's global governing body halted its reinstatement process. Russia's athletics federation had been suspended since 2015 over a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which found evidence of mass doping in the sport. It has since been working towards reinstatement but World Athletics, the sport's global governing body formerly known as the IAAF, last week halted the process and raised the possibility of the Russian federation being expelled altogether after its president and six others were provisionally suspended over breaches of anti-doping rules.

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