World Athletics have announced that Russian athletes will remain banned from featuring in track and field events "for the foreseeable future", while transgender women athletes who have gone through male puberty will be barred from competing in female events.
Athletes have been unable to compete for Russia since November 2015 after state-sponsored doping was exposed, but that suspension has now been lifted. However, Russian athletes will still be barred from competing due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
World Athletics president Lord Coe confirmed the news at a press conference, saying: "The World Athletics Council approved to continue to exclude Russian and Belarus athletes from all World Series events for the foreseeable future due to the invasion and ongoing war in Ukraine."
