MONACO (AP) — Russia vowed Thursday to work “very actively” with track and field’s governing body to eradicate the doping culture that led to its blanket ban from international competition, possibly including next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The decision by Russia’s athletics federation not to contest the ban and its additional promise to work “very hard” to tackle doping represented a modest victory for Sebastian Coe, the embattled president of the International Association of Athletics Federations.
The move suggests that Coe’s hardline stance against Russia is producing early results. It was Coe who first pushed the IAAF council to sanction …read more
Source: KXAN
