Russia’s anti-doping agency (RUSADA) is challenging its own disciplinary committee in an international court after it decided not to punish an athletics coach for trying to bribe a doping control officer, director Yuri Ganus said yesterday. “We will go through with this case until the end.” The role of the disciplinary anti-doping committee, established as an independent entity by RUSADA, is to determine whether anti-doping rule violations have taken place. Russia’s athletics federation would not comment. Both RUSADA and Russia’s athletics federation were suspended after a 2015 report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) found evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russian athletics. Russia’s athletics federation remains suspended by global athletics body the IAAF.

Source: The Star March 26, 2019 21:00 UTC