Russian athletes are set to be banned from the World Indoor Championships next year after it was announced that a review of its anti-doping programme would not be completed until the end of March.
All Russian athletes have been provisionally banned from international competition following the doping scandal detailed in a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which was published last week.
A team of IAAF inspectors will start work next year to decide whether the necessary measures have been taken to allow Russia to be re-admitted to the governing body.
Russia's anti-doping agency (RUSADA) has been declared non-compliant with the international code as the fall-out from last week's extraordinary report which found the country had operated a systematic, state-sponsored doping programme continues.
The World Indoor Championships are scheduled for 17-20 March in Portland, Oregon, a week before the inspection team will make its first report.
The IAAF has also drawn up a list of proposed targets that the Russian federation (ARAF) must meet.
The proposed targets include:
- Identifying, investigating, suspending, sanctioning or excluding from ARAF all athletes, coaches, doctors, agents or administrators involved in doping
- Establishing an effective anti-doping framework in Russia and ending the culture of silence to allow athletes to safely blow the whistle on wrongdoers
- Proposing criminalising the distribution and trafficking of prohibited substances under Russian law
- Implementing a new robust and transparent anti-doping testing programme
- Satisfying WADA and the IAAF that its officials, coaches and athletes act in accordance with the world anti-doping code
The IAAF council will discuss the proposed criteria at a meeting next week and then a plan will be drawn up to decide how the inspection team will carry out their work in Russia.
