MARK SHEARMAN
SEB COE says he hopes the IAAF will be able to welcome a clean Russia back into the international fold for the 2017 World Championships, but will set no time limit on it.
The IAAF president (pictured) took the decision in June to bar the Russian athletics team from the Rio Olympics after the country had shown insufficient evidence that it had cleaned up its act following a series of damaging revelations of a doping programme orchestrated at a state level.