The International Athletics Federation is due to hear from its taskforce sent to investigate Russia's new anti-doping regime.
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The International Athletics Federation is due to hear from its taskforce sent to investigate Russia’s new anti-doping regime. **> IAAF to make decision on Russia’s participation at Rio 2016 in June https://t.co/TFoZAWYvku (Pic: EPA) pic.twitter.com/1WNEkY7ja2
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> — Guardian sport (guardian_sport) <a href="https://twitter.com/guardian_sport/status/723170542157729796">April 21, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Russia has been suspended by the IAAF last November after being accused of state-sponsored doping in a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. <b> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"tw-align-center data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WADA revokes Moscow anti-doping lab accreditation <a href="https://t.co/GSDdZlY0th">https://t.co/GSDdZlY0th</a></p>— ESPN Olympics (ESPNOlympics) April 15, 2016
As it stands Russian athletes are banned for competing at the Rio Olympics.**
Russia has announced a raft of changes it has made to its anti-doping procedures as it battles to restore credibility. **> Russia steps up bid to have ban lifted for Olympics https://t.co/U6troChOKH pic.twitter.com/0kd2lNaAnT
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> — City A.M. (CityAM) <a href="https://twitter.com/CityAM/status/722817242262441987">April 20, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <b>The IAAF will makes its decision on Russia at the upcoming council meeting in Vienna on 17 June. <b> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"tw-align-center data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Will <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Russia?src=hash">#Russia</a> make it to the Olympics? What do you think?<br>Read more here:<a href="https://t.co/NfPuIeSgzJ">https://t.co/NfPuIeSgzJ</a> <a href="https://t.co/G8gzcLjA8o">pic.twitter.com/G8gzcLjA8o</a></p>— PA Sport (pasport) April 20, 2016
> Surprise! Surprise! [Not] Russia will go to Rio after all! ‘Make Every Effort’ to Accredit Russia: https://t.co/MDVlDJvToW via SputnikInt</a></p>— ELLIS CASHMORE (elliscashmore) April 20, 2016**