The Supervisory Board of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) will “most likely” decide to appeal against the range of sanctions from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), according to deputy director general Margarita Pakhnotskaya. Pakhnotskaya also indicated her opposition to a possible CAS appeal, adding she was hopeful of a “reasonable…
MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. A central track and field stadium in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, will be named after the world’s most famous pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, Dagestani Sports Minister Magomed Magomedov told TASS on Wednesday. Read More
MOSCOW: Former Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva was confirmed on Tuesday as a member of the supervisory board of Russia’s anti-doping agency RUSASA, the Russian Olympic Committee said. The 34-year-old Isinbayeva, who retired after Russia’s track and field team was banned from competing at last year’s Olympics in Rio…
MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/. Russia’s two-time Olympic Champion Yelena Isinbayeva has been chosen as an official ambassador of the 3rd Winter World Military Games to be held in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi on February 22 through 28, the press center of the Games said on Monday. Read…
MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. Russia’s membership in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is to be resumed as the All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) has fulfilled all of its requirements, double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva, who is now chief of the RUSADA Supervisory Board, said on Sunday. Read…
Troubling as the details of the McLaren Report were, a news item out of Russia earlier this week was equally so. The new chair of the country’s “revamped” anti-doping agency will be Yelena Isinbayeva, the pole vault great who has spent the past year thumbing her nose at all the…
MOSCOW, December 9. /TASS/. Russia’s two-time Olympic Champion Yelena Isinbayeva announced on Friday the withdrawal of her candidacy from today’s election in Moscow for the post of the All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF). “I am withdrawing my candidacy due to my recent appointment to the post of the chairman of the…
Russia’s two-time Olympic champion in pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva has been appointed to take charge of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), according to Wednesday’s press release of the agency. “I am grateful to my colleagues for the vested trust in me,” Isinbayeva was quoted as saying.…
MOSCOW: Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva is among four candidates to register for an election to choose a new president of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF), the organisation said on its official website. Read More