LONDON (AP) — Russia’s track and field athletes will be eligible for the Olympics only if the country falls into line with all global anti-doping rules and the reforms are verifiable, IOC President Thomas Bach said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press. “The important goal is not bringing…
AFP – The World Athletics Championships, which begin this weekend, are the first of a series of high-profile international sports events to be held in Russia in the coming years and the biggest competition in Moscow since the 1980 Olympics. In February next year, the Black Sea resort of Sochi…
MOSCOW: Russia stages its national athletics trials from Monday (today) desperate to bury its drugs-plagued image three weeks out from Moscow’s hosting of the world championships. In recent months, around 40 Russian athletes have been banned for doping, a development which led many to question the country’s suitability to…
MOSCOW, November 6 (R-Sport) – Russia’s anti-doping agency said Tuesday it has suspended a pole vaulter after he tested positive for a banned substance.Ivan Gertlein, who won team bronze at the Russian championships in Sochi this year, failed a drugs test on October 15, Rusada said in a statement.”Gertlein has…
