IAAF maintains ban on Russian athletics over doping scandal
Participants talk before the start of the World Anti-Doping Agency Symposium for Anti-Doping Organisations in Lausanne, in this March 24, 2015 file photo. — Reuters pic
DOHA, March 11 — World athletics governing body IAAF said today it had maintained a ban on Russia’s athletics federation over doping in the country until it receives data recently collected from a Moscow lab and financial compensation. Russia’s athletics federation has been suspended since 2015 following a World Anti-Doping Agency report that found evidence of widespread doping in the sport. — Reuters
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