The President of the Russian Athletics Federation takes consequences from the ban against him and resigns. Dmitri Schljachtin announced on Saturday the news agency Interfax, according to. "I submitted a letter of resignation to the Bureau," he said.
The Independent Integrity Commission (AIU) of the World Athletics Association (formerly IAAF) had previously suspended several Russian officials of the Athletics Federation provisionally. In addition to Schljachtin, this also applies to Managing Director Alexander Parkin. The Integrity Commission accused the Russian Federation of serious anti-doping rule violations.
The background is the case of the high jumper Daniil Lysenko. This should not have informed Dopingkontrolleure about his daily whereabouts for possible tests in the training phase and falsified medical documents with the help of officials. The Russian Athletics has been suspended since November 2015 and the process of lifting this ban has now been halted.
Regardless of the incidents in athletics threaten the Russian sport in the wake of the doping scandal far-reaching consequences. The committee recommended to the World Anti-Doping Agency Wada on Friday that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency Rusada be re-blocked, which should result in the exclusion of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
The background is the affair of suspected manipulated data from the Moscow Doping Control Laboratory. These are intended to prove the exact extent of systematic and state-directed doping in Russia and allow for individual punishment for athletes. Russia denies a deliberate manipulation of the data and speaks of technical problems.
