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Evening Standard
Sport
Mitch Phillips

World Athletics ends Russia ban over state-sponsored doping but maintains Ukraine invasion sanction

World Athletics has voted to end its eight-year ban of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) but the country's athletes, and those of Belarus, will remain excluded from international competition because of an ongoing, separate ban over the invasion of Ukraine.

RusAF was banned in 2015 after the discovery of massive, state-sponsored doping and related cover-ups. A failure to meaningfully address the issue meant that the suspension remained in place.

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