Doping: the Russian Federation requests a delay before a possible suspension – Fil Info

The Russian Athletics Federation (Rusaf) on Tuesday asked the International Federation (World Athletics) not to comment on a possible suspension of Russian athletes, whose reinstatement under the neutral flag is threatened after the non-payment of a fine for doping. The request comes as the World Athletics Council is due to consider the possibility of a full suspension of Russian athletes at a meeting on July 29-30. At the beginning of July, the international federation announced the temporary freezing of the process of reinstatement of Russian athletes under neutral banner because Rusaf had not paid on time a fine imposed for violation of the anti-doping rules. In its letter to World Athletics on Tuesday, the Russian federation said it still had not found the money to pay the fine. World Athletics had already frozen in November 2019 the process for handpicked Russian athletes to participate in competitions outside Russia before allowing a quota of 10 Russian athletes to take part in the Tokyo Olympics in exchange for payment of this. fine. The body also froze the reintegration process of Russia, suspended since November 2015 for having established an institutional doping system.