IAAF Taskforce report to IAAF Council, 27 July 2018 / Rune Andersen. - International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). - Monaco : IAAF, 2018
The IAAF Council noted significant progress by the Russian Federation in meeting the outstanding requirements, and in some cases going above and beyond what was required, but has decided that the Russian federation’s suspension will remain in force until its next meeting in December.
Chair of the Russia Taskforce, Rune Andersen, outlined in his report to Council the three main requirements still outstanding:
- Payment of the costs incurred by the IAAF as a result of the Russian crisis, including the costs of the Taskforce and the costs of the various CAS cases. RusAF has made a written commitment to pay all of those costs once they are finalised.
- Reinstatement of RUSADA by WADA, which depends upon:
- The Russian authorities acknowledging the findings of the McLaren and Schmid Commissions that officials from the Russian Ministry of Sport orchestrated the doping conspiracy and cover-up described in their reports; and
- The Russian authorities providing access to the data from testing of samples at the Moscow lab from 2011 to 2015, so that the IAAF and other sports concerned can determine whether the suspicious findings reported in the Moscow lab’s LIMS database should or should not be pursued as adverse analytical findings.
The Taskforce explained that it understood WADA was communicating with the Russian authorities to try to resolve these points before the meeting of the WADA ExCo in September 2018, where it hopes there will be a breakthrough.
If these points are resolved before the Council’s next meeting, in Monaco in December 2018, then the Taskforce would hope and expect to be able to recommend that RusAF be provisionally reinstated at that time. If not, if those points remain unresolved, then the Taskforce will not be able to make that recommendation but instead would have to consider other options.
