THREE cheers for the IAAF. They alone among the world’s sports federations have had the guts to ban a Russian team from competing in Rio.
With the totally corrupt state-inspired doping regime in Russia laid bare, the IAAF acted prudently so that the world’s clean athletes would not have to compete against the products of a system based on cheating. There may be some Russian athletes who have not resorted to doping but they would find it impossible to prove their innocence. It’s no good claiming they have never failed a doping test when it’s clear that immense numbers of samples were falsified or thrown away.
Yelena Isinbayeva
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