Russian Athletics officials banned over doping ban fraud conspiracy

Whereabouts failures of high jumper Lysenko covered up Medical records falsified and car accident invented Five senior Russian Athletics officials have been banned after an extraordinary conspiracy involving inventing a car accident and falsifying medical records from a fake clinic to protect a world champion high jumper from a doping ban was unearthed by the Athletics Integrity Unit. The AIU uncovered the plot during a 15-month investigation with 22 witnesses, 7,000 documents and numerous delet...