At one point, the WADA-accredited anti-doping laboratory in Moscow destroyed 1,417 samples shortly before an inspection.

  "I am falling victim to those who created a system of manipulating our beautiful sport and is guilty of using it for...

  Double Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva called the decision "the funeral of athletics".

"Clean athletes' dreams are being destroyed because of the reprehensible behavior of other athletes and officials."

 

 

An international anti-doping commission recommended the Russian Athletics Federation be banned from competitions and that five athletes receive lifetime bans...