{"id":14731,"date":"2018-03-07T18:44:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=14731"},"modified":"2018-03-07T18:44:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:44:55","slug":"russia-could-face-permanent-iaaf-ban-over-doping-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2018\/03\/07\/russia-could-face-permanent-iaaf-ban-over-doping-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia could face permanent IAAF ban over doping reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia remains suspended from international athletics, and the sport\u2019s governing body says it could permanently exclude the country if key doping reforms are not met soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IAAF first banned Russia in November 2015 over evidence of state-sponsored doping.<\/p>\n

The country was expected to have met reforms set out by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) by November 2017.<\/p>\n

But the IAAF says many requirements have still not been met.<\/p>\n

Evidence of state involvement in the systemic doping of Russian athletes was compiled in the 2016 McLaren report.<\/p>\n

Its conclusions \u2013 and that of a later International Olympic Committee (IOC) report \u2013 led to the country being banned from February\u2019s Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

Russia has repeatedly denied running a state-sponsored doping programme.<\/p>\n

Rune Andersen, chairman of the IAAF taskforce looking into Russian doping, said because the country had \u201cstill not acknowledged the institutional doping scheme [that was] uncovered\u201d there can be \u201cno comfort it will not be repeated\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the taskforce had recommended that Russia should not be reinstated, and the IAAF council had accepted.<\/p>\n

He added if Russia did not make progress towards fulfilling Wada\u2019s reforms by the council\u2019s next meeting in July, \u201cfurther measures should be discussed\u201d.<\/p>\n

This includes \u201cwithdrawing permission for Russian athletes to compete as neutrals in international competition\u201d and \u201ctaking the steps necessary to recommend that Rusaf [Russia\u2019s athletics federation] be expelled from IAAF membership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe taskforce will now call for an urgent meeting with Rusaf and the country\u2019s ministry of sport to press on them the need to address these remaining issues without further delay,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

IAAF president Lord Coe said the prospect of permanent exclusion was \u201cnot sitting here as a threat\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt is there because we want this situation resolved. It is always worth remembering that the criteria is not unilateral \u2013 it was agreed with the Russian federation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want those athletes back in the fold, and the world needs to know those athletes are in a system of confidence and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Russia\u2019s ban from February\u2019s Games in Pyeongchang, 168 Russians competed as neutrals in South Korea, and two failed drugs tests.<\/p>\n

After the Games, Russia\u2019s Olympic membership was restored by the IOC.<\/p>\n

The IOC planned to reinstate Russia after the Games \u2013 as long as there were no more failed tests \u2013 and it said all remaining samples were negative.<\/p>\n

Several Russian athletes took part in last week\u2019s World Indoor Championships in Birmingham competing as neutrals.<\/p>\n

Mariya Lasitskene won the women\u2019s high jump, while Danil Lysenko won the men\u2019s high jump.<\/p>\n

New rules on hyperandrogenism<\/strong><\/p>\n

The IAAF has also decided to reinstate a reworked version of its rules on hyperandrogenism, banning female athletes with naturally high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone.<\/p>\n

It claims such athletes \u2013 South Africa\u2019s Caster Semenya and Indian sprinter Dutee Chand are among those to have fallen foul of the rules \u2013 gain an unfair advantage.<\/p>\n

However the rules were suspended by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2015 after claims they were unscientific and \u201cbiological racism\u201d.<\/p>\n

Under the new rules, female runners competing between 400m and a mile must medically reduce their testosterone levels if they are over a set limit.<\/p>\n

The new rules come into force on 1 November and the IAAF believes they are legally tight \u2013 but can always be revised if necessary.<\/p>\n

Coe on \u2018misleading Parliament\u2019 claim<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Coe was also asked about an MPs\u2019 report which stated he had given \u201cmisleading\u201d answers to a select committee hearing.<\/p>\n

When appearing before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee last year, Coe had said he was \u201cnot aware\u201d of specific allegations of corruption in Russian athletics before they were made in a German TV documentary in December 2014.<\/p>\n

However, after seeing emails sent in August of that year, the committee said in report that \u201cit stretched credibility to believe\u201d Coe was not aware of allegations before he said he was.<\/p>\n

Responding to that report on Tuesday, Coe said: \u201cWe\u2019ve read the report and absorbed it and I did not mislead the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia remains suspended from international athletics, and the sport’s governing body says it could permanently exclude the country if key doping reforms are not met soon. The IAAF first banned Russia in November 2015 over evidence of state-sponsored doping. The country was expected to have met reforms set out by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) by November 2017. But the IAAF says many requirements have still not been met. Evidence of state involvement in the systemic doping of Russian athletes was compiled in the 2016 McLaren report. Its conclusions –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14733,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731\/revisions\/14733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}