On Friday the 17th June Sebastien Coe, President of the world athletics governing body the IAAF, announced that Russian athletes would be unable to compete at the Olympic Games this summer. It was decided that since Russia was caught implementing a programme of “state sponsored doping” in November 2015, they have not done enough to correct […]
James Diamond
Rio 2016: The IAAF must ban Russia
Lord Coe’s IAAF must send a message and ban all Russian track and field athletes from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Following the shocking revelations of systematic, state sponsored doping in Russia made by German television network ARD, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commissioned a report into the Russian anti-doping system. It concluded the […]