World Athletics wants to see credible plan before reinstatementRussia’s sports minister given until 15 August to pay upRussia has escaped expulsion from World Athletics – for now – after the country’s minister of sport, Oleg Matytsin, stepped in at the last minute to guarantee it would pay a £5m fine ($6.31m) for doping offences by 15 August.
The dramatic intervention came after Rune Andersen, who leads the taskforce charged with steering Russia’s return to the international fold, said he had spent “an enormous amount of time and effort trying to help
Russia athletics reform itself” but its response had been inadequate.