The country’s track team was banned by the IAAF in November 2015 after a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation found widespread drug use by elite Russian athletes. In this May 18 file photo, Craig Reedie, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, speaks to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations in Montreal. Following WADA’s decision last week to reinstate the Russian Anti-Doping Agency last week, Russia has filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn its doping ban from track and field competition. The Russian track federation said its appeal asks for the same two criteria to be dropped from the list of demands the IAAF has made. WADA also reinstated the Russian Anti-Doping Agency in return for a promise to provide evidence from the Moscow lab at a later date.

Source: thestar September 26, 2018 14:37 UTC