UK ATHLETICS chairman Ed Warner has backed the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision to uphold the IAAF’s strict blanket ban of Russian athletes for the Rio Olympics and praised the sport’s international federation for maintaining a strong stance.
Sixty-eight Russian athletes with the support of the Russian Olympic Committee filed appeals to CAS in order to overturn the country’s track and field ban but were last week turned down.
MARK SHEARMAN