Russia should be banned from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report has recommended.
Wada’s independent commission examined allegations of doping, cover-ups, and extortion in Russian athletics, which also implicated the IAAF, the sport’s world governing body.
It also wants five athletes and five coaches to get lifetime doping bans.
The report also identified “systemic failures” in the IAAF that prevent an “effective” anti-doping programme.
In addition, it states the London 2012 Olympics were “sabotaged” by the “widespread inaction” against Russian athletes with suspicious doping profiles by the IAAF and the Russian athletics federation.
Why wasn’t the same recommendations made on the Systemic Doping by the Americans in the Balco Scandal. There has been widespread doping in Athletics by American Athletes for a long time and then some of these athletes who were accused of doping but never failed a drug test are made IAAF Ambassadors. Such a double standard. Clean up the spot at every level.