• Senior figures within IAAF council urgent for instant suspension[br]• Sebastian Coe under pressure to give up Nike advisory roleRussia faces being suspended from athletics by the end of the week as the fallout from Dick Pound’s devastating report into state-sponsored doping begins to reverberate around world sport.
Sebastian Coe,the head of the sport’s global governing body who is under pressure to act in the wake of the damning report that also alleged “corruption and bribery practices at the very highest level of international athletics”, will chair a assembly of the International Association of Athletics Federations council on Friday at which sanctions against Russia will be decided.
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Source: theguardian.com