"If you're going to have an Olympic final, you're going to want Jenn in there and you're going to want Yelena Isinbayeva in there. BOSTON (AP) " The IAAF could all-but guarantee American Jenn Suhr a gold medal if it bans the entire Russian track team from the Rio de Janeiro Games. Track's international governing body is expected to decide on Friday whether to ban the entire Russian track and field team from the Rio Games as punishment for a widespread, state-backed doping scheme. "If you don't have your best people in the event, then it's not really the true event," Suhr said Thursday. "But I do not think it is fair to forbid me and other clean Russian athletes to compete " athletes who have repeatedly proved they are innocent of cheating," she said.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 16, 2016 21:11 UTC