Down-the-line.com / Athletics. The Council of the World Athletics Association (World Athletics) has decided to extend the suspension of the All-Russian Athletics Federation until November 2022. This was announced by the head of World Athletics Sebastian Coe during a conference Press.

“Three key elements have been supported by the World Athletics Board in terms of the task force recommendations. They will continue to monitor ARAF’s implementation of the recovery roadmap. The task force will also organize an independent audit of the ARAF processes and KPIs for recovery.The audit will take place from mid-October until the end of this year, after which the task force will report on the results of the internal audit to the board, which will meet in November,” Coe said.

ARAF thanked Trusova

In November 2015, ARAF was stripped of its World Athletics membership amid a doping scandal.