Teller Report

RUSADA named the names of athletes requesting letters for World Athletics

5/14/2020, 12:04:17 PM

Margarita Pakhnotskaya, Deputy Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), said that athletes Sergey Shubenkov, Angelika Sidorova and Maria Lasitskene requested letters from the organization to obtain neutral status in World Athletics.


“As of yesterday, we had three applications: from Sergey Shubenkov, Angelika Sidorova and Maria Lasitskene. All three today, I think, will receive the requested letters, ”RIA Novosti quoted Pakhnotskaya as saying.

VFLA membership in World Athletics was suspended in November 2015, since then the suspension has been extended 12 times.

Earlier in RUSADA they told when the WADA executive committee will discuss the issue on the database of the Moscow laboratory.