International sports federation votes to suspend Russia over doping scandal
The International Association of Athletics Federations voted Friday to provisionally suspend Russia as a member amid a doping scandal, the IAAF reported on its website.
The action will keep the All-Russia Athletic Federation, the nation's leading athletic association, out of international competition for an indefinite period that may include the2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
The report -- commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and led by former WADA President and International Olympic Committee Vice President Dick Pound -- detailed a "deeply rooted culture of cheating at all levels" of Russian athletics. It implicated athletes, coaches, doctors, laboratory personnel and even the state itself.
Among the myriad allegations in the report, investigators said athletes were often given notice of out-of-competition tests, used false identities and frequently bribed doping control officers to get around other tests.
The report accused Russia's state security service, the FSB, of using intimidation to influence the operations of a Moscow laboratory whose job it was to test samples for evidence of doping.
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