Russia fined US$10m for breaching anti-doping rules
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World Athletics yesterday fined Russia’s track and field federation US$10 million for breaching anti-doping rules and capped at 10 the number of Russians allowed to compete as neutrals at the Tokyo Olympics.
The system of allowing Russian athletes to take part as Authorized Neutral Athletes, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe warned, “will be suspended if US$5 million of the US$10-million fine is not paid by 1 July 2020. The remaining US$5 million of the fine will be suspended for two years, to be paid immediately if during that period RUSAF (the Russian federation) commits a further breach of the anti-doping rules or fails to make meaningful progress towards satisfying the reinstatement conditions set by the Council.” World Athletics’ decision-making Council had last year put a freeze on the system of allowing Russian athletes to compete as neutrals, simultaneously suspending the process of reinstating RUSAF over charges against its officials that they obstructed an anti-doping investigation. Those decisions prompted wholesale change at RUSAF. The Russian body has just appointed a new head, Yevgeny Yurchenko, who quickly agreed with accusations made by the Athletics Integrity Unit against RUSAF on the wrongdoings in the tipping-point case of high jumper Danil Lysenko, in which “forged documents and false explanations” were provided as an alibi to his whereabouts.
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