The banking executive Piotr Fradkov He was elected this Saturday unanimously new president of Russian Athletics Federation (FRA)excluded from international competitions since 2015.
Fradkov, who will hold the post for the next four years, received unanimous support from FRA members at an extraordinary conference in Moscow.
The president of PSB bank replaces Petr Ivanov, who was able to partially accept the federation’s membership of World Athletics in March of last year.
However, the president of World Athletics, Sebastian Coe, recommended extending the exclusion from Russian athletics, although he admitted progress in his rehabilitation process.
Coe’s supporters are waiting for Moscow to meet “all the conditions” for its reintegration into the athletics family, more so after the start of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.
World Athletics, which excluded the Russian federation in November 2015 for complicity in doping, hardened its stance after the start of the war in February 2022. As a result, at the Paris Games no Russian athlete competed, even as a neutral, at the Olympic stadium.
It had earlier approved a roadmap for the rehabilitation of the FRA, after which ten neutral Russian athletes were allowed to compete in the Tokyo Games without a flag or anthem.
Source: La Verdad
I’m Jason Root, a professional writer working with Today Times Live, the premier news website. I specialize in sports writing, covering the biggest stories in the world of athletics. With an eye for detail and a passion for storytelling, I provide engaging and informative articles that capture the key elements of any event or issue. My work has been featured on numerous respected websites and publications around the world.
