Five Russian track and field officials banned in elaborate doping cover-up
MONACO An elaborate deception involving a fake medical clinic in a demolished building and made-up claims about a world champion athlete s car crash led to five senior Russian track and field officials being banned from the sport Wednesday.
Disciplinary rulings found former Russian track and field president Dmitry Shlyakhtin and his colleagues obstructed an anti-doping investigation into high jumper Danil Lysenko with forged documents and fake claims.
Shlyakhtin, who left the federation soon after charges were filed in 2019, was banned for four years. It appears that most if not all of the senior management of RusAF were involved in this major fraud. That is quite shocking, the verdict in Shlyakhtin and board member Artur Karamyan s case reads, using an abbreviation for the federation.
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