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Russia faces ban from athletics for widespread doping offencesReuters
An international anti-doping commission recommended on Monday that Russia's Athletics Federation be banned from international competition over widespread doping offences, a move that could see the powerhouse Russian team excluded from next year's Rio Olympics.
Russian sports minister Vitlay Mutko said there was no evidence for the accusations against the Federation.
The commission, set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), found however a "deeply rooted culture of cheating" in Russian athletics. But it also identified what it called systemic failures in the global governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
PRESIDENT OF GERMAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION WOLFGANG NIERSBACH RESIGNSDW News
The resignation of the head of the DFB came amid a controversy over a payment made to FIFA in 2005. This comes a week after the tax authorities launched a series of raids, including on the DFB's headquarters.
German FA (DFB) President Wolfgang Niersbach announced his resignation following a meeting of the association's board at its Frankfurt headquarters on Monday.
The resignation comes amid a controversy over a 2005 payment of 6.7 million euros ($7.4 million) made to FIFA, football's world governing body, linked to the 2006 World Cup.
"I have recognized the time has come to take the political responsibility for events around the 2006 World Cup," Niersbach told reporters following the board meeting.
He noted that the board had not withdrawn its support for him and that it was his decision to step down so that the office of the DFB president would not be tarnished.
Russia accused of ‘state-sponsored doping’ as Wada calls for athletics banThe Guardian
Russia operated a huge state sponsored doping programme that effectively sabotaged the London 2012 Olympics and should be banned from athletics, according to a damning report by the World Anti Doping Agency.
The 32-page review by an independent commission chaired byDick Pound, a former Wada president, uncovered a “deeply rooted culture of cheating” and recommended that Russia be suspended from competition and barred from the Olympic Games in Rio next year unless it entirely overhauls its approach.
The International Association of Athletics Federations, where senior officials including former president Lamine Diack were last week arrested by French prosecutors, also came in for heavy criticism as the report found “corruption and bribery practices at the highest levels of international athletics”.
Athletics doping: Wada commission wants Russia banBBC
Russia should be banned from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report has recommended.
Wada's independent commission examined allegations of doping, cover-ups, and extortion in Russian athletics, which also implicated the IAAF, the sport's world governing body.
It says London 2012 was "sabotaged" by "widespread inaction" against athletes with suspicious doping profiles.