MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva was confirmed on Tuesday as a member of the supervisory board of Russia's anti-doping agency RUSASA, the Russian Olympic Committee said. "The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has nominated Isinbayeva as a member of the RUSADA supervisory board," the head of the ROC legal department, Alexandra Brilliantova, told TASS news agency. Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, is also an International Olympic committee member. She was an outspoken critic of a decision in November 2015 by the International Association of Athletics Federations to ban Russian track and field athletes from international competition. Isinbayeva, among 67 Russian track and field athletes ruled out of the Rio Olympics last , has questioned the validity of the evidence against Russian athletes and has attacked Russian whistle-blowers.

Source: thestar March 07, 2017 17:03 UTC