LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's athletics federation still has a long road to navigate if it is to overturn its ban after the head of the IAAF’s Task Force reported on Monday that several criteria for reinstatement remained unmet. The earliest possible return for Russia was November but in the light of the Task Force’s concerns that looks extremely unlikely. IAAF president Sebastian Coe said the world body's system of clearing individual Russian athletes to compete was working. “There’s a pressure on us now to figure out how we get smarter at building the profiles of great athletes out there. “Our biggest challenge is remaining relevant to young people and that’s what we’ve spent most of the day talking about.”(Editing by Clare Fallon)

Source: The Star July 31, 2017 21:22 UTC