and belarusian athletes from competition is figure skating it s an event russia would ve hoped to dominate at the world championships in france later this month. but skating s governing body the isu now says athletes from those two countries won t be invited. it comes just weeks after russia s kamila valieva competed at the winter olympics, despite failing a drugs test. yesterday, football suspended russia from all its international competitions, including the women s euros this summer and the men s world cup. fifa haven t yet announced how the knockout format for this month s qualification play offs will change with russia now out of the competition. they were due to play poland in the semi finals, which take place between the 24th and 28th of march. meanwhile, one of russia s best supported club sides has said they re upset by the decision to remove them from the europa league. spartak moscow have been kicked out of the tournament with their last 16 opponents rb leipzig given a bye