MOSCOW — Moscow and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have come to an agreement on steps to reform Russia's scandal-ridden anti-doping agency, the country's sports minister said Tuesday.
"We have agreed on a roadmap," Interfax news agency quoted sports minister Vitaly Mutko as saying.
"It's clear what we have to do," Mutko said, declining to disclose the details of the roadmap.
The announcement comes days after Mutko met with WADA head David Howman in Frankfurt for talks on how to revamp Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, which has been found non-compliant with international anti-doping standards.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) suspended Russia last month after a bombshell report published by a WADA independent commission found evidence of state-sponsored doping and large-scale corruption in Russian athletics.
Russia — whose anti-doping agency RUSADA and anti-doping laboratory have been suspended over the report — has vowed to retrieve IAAF membership in time for its track and field athletes to compete at next year's Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
Kenya names interim chief
Athletics Kenya Tuesday named former army chief Jackson Tuwei as the new temporary president to replace Isaiah Kiplagat, a day after he was suspended with two other officials by the IAAF ethics commission.
Kiplagat, who led the national athletics federation for more than 20 years, was suspended along with his vice president David Okeyo and former treasurer Joseph Kinyua over suspicions they had siphoned off sponsorship money from Nike and subverted anti-doping controls.
The nomination of Tuwei was reached at an AK executive committee meeting Tuesday, which said they had accepted the decision taken by the IAAF ethics commission to suspend the three administrators.
Coe to head Diamond League
IAAF President Sebastian Coe was Tuesday unanimously elected as chairman of the board of the Diamond League, track and field's top tier invitational circuit.
Coe was voted in after a general assembly of the Diamond League, composed of representatives of the IAAF and the 14 meeting organizations whose competitions make up the calendar of the IAAF Diamond League.
The Diamond League board comprises six persons, three members representing the meetings and three the IAAF.
Alongside Coe, Anna Riccardi was elected in as the second IAAF representative, with a third member to be proposed ahead of the Diamond League general assembly's next meeting and full board elections in March 2016.
