Former Anti-doping expert Rune Anderson will lead a five-man team that will inspect Russia’s athletics federation as it attempts to regain its IAAF membership.
Russia were provisionally suspended from the sport’s governing body earlier this last week after the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) stated that they found ‘state-sponsored doping.’
The team has been made up of Andersen, as well as former Namibian sprinter, Frankie Fredericks.
Fredericks won a silver medal in the 100m and 200m in 1992 and 1996, and is also a former world champion.
He’ll be joined by the council members of the International Association of Athletics Federation, Abby Hoffman, Anna Riccardi and Geoff Gardner.
IAAF president Sebastian Coe said that the team has ‘great experience’ and that they meet the criteria to decide if Russica can ‘once again enter athletes into international competition.’
Lincoln’s own aspiring Olympic trialist Matt Hudson, who specialises in long jump, thinks there’s nothing athletes can do about fellow sportsmen who dope.
Mr Hudson said: “You have to put it past you, if they choose to do it, then they’ll get punished, but you have to hope that the athletes you’re competing against aren’t doing it so you get a fair advantage.”
