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Russia's suspended athletics federation (RusAF) has asked World Athletics to postpone a decision on potential fresh sanctions or even expulsion.

MOSCOW – Russia's suspended athletics federation has asked World Athletics to postpone a decision on potential fresh sanctions or even expulsion.

The federation has been suspended for nearly five years over mass doping, and missed a July 1 deadline to pay millions of dollars to World Athletics as a fine for breaching anti-doping rules. World Athletics also said the taskforce overseeing the federation's reinstatement efforts was standing down until a meeting of its Council on July 29-30.In a letter seen by Reuters, RusAF appealed to World Athletics not to rule on its fate at the Council meeting this week.

 

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