Five senior former Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) officials, including ex-president Dmitry Shlyakhtin, have been banned from the sport by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after a “major fraud” ant…
Former RusAF president, senior execs, banned in doping cover-up case
Dmitry Shlyakhtin, then president of RusAF, speaks at the 2019 World Athletics Congress in Doha, Qatar (by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images for IAAF)
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