IAAF TASKFORCE REPORT TO IAAF COUNCIL, 28 JUNE 20171.
IAAF Taskforce counsel Jon Taylor and I met with representatives of RusAF and the Russian
Ministry of Sport in Moscow on 13 June 2017 to give RusAF an opportunity (in accordance withArticle 15.9 of the IAAF Constitution) to make submissions as to whether its suspension from IAAF
membership should or should not be continued. I am now providing this report to the IAAF Councilof our findings from that meeting. I am doing so well in advance of the Council's next meeting (on31 July 2017), because the IAAF Congress will meet on 3 August 2017, and I am advised that, inadvance of the meeting of the IAAF Congress, the following needs to be done:
1.1
Having considered this report (and any comments made by RusAF on this report), Council
should decide whether to suspend RusAF from IAAF membership until the next meeting of Congress,in accordance with Article 15.7(a) of the IAAF Constitution. (I understand that Council will consider
the matter and make its decision this weekend).
1.2
If Council decides to suspend RusAF from IAAF membership until the next meeting ofCongress, then that decision should be reported to Congress at its August meeting, in accordancewith Article 15.12 of the IAAF Constitution, and Council should formally propose that Congress
resolve, pursuant to Article 15.1(a) of the IAAF Constitution, to continue the suspension of RusAF'smembership of the IAAF until all of the conditions fixed by Council for the cure of RusAF's breachesof the Objects of the IAAF and for the consequent reinstatement of RusAF's membership have beenmet.
1.3
In accordance with Article 15.4 of the IAAF Constitution, RusAF should be given notice of thegrounds for such proposal at least one month before the meeting of Congress. This means that any
decision by Council to propose that Congress continue the suspension of RusAF from IAAF
membership needs to be notified to RusAF, with the grounds for that decision, by no later than 3
July 2017.
Progress since last Council meeting
2.
At Council's meeting in February 2017, the Taskforce identified six 'milestones' (orconditions) that it considers need to be reached before it will be able to consider recommending
provisional reinstatement of RusAF. At Council's meeting in April 2017, I reported on the progressthat RusAF had made to that date against those milestones. Below I set out the milestones again inturn, and explain the progress that has been made towards reaching them since that April 2017
meeting:
2.1
The first milestone (or condition) is that all outstanding Verification Criteria have beensatisfied, and those Verification Criteria that are ongoing -- such as the requirement of fullcooperation with the French criminal authorities -- continue to be satisfied moving forward.
The Taskforce understands that the French criminal authorities visited Moscow in May 2017, wherethey were assisted by the Russian criminal authorities, and that they continue to be happy with thecooperation they are currently receiving from the Russian criminal authorities.
Most of the other Verification Criteria have also been completed, but a small number remain
outstanding. In particular:1•A small number of disciplinary cases that were pending when RusAF was suspended frommembership are still not yet resolved (VC 3.1).

•A few of the athletes mentioned in the original WADA Independent Commission report
have still not yet been located for interview (VC 4.2). Similarly some of the athletes (andtwo coaches) who were banned for doping in the four years prior to RusAF's suspension
have not yet been interviewed (VC 4.2).

•RusAF has not yet reported formally on steps taken in response to evidence that Mr Chegin
and Mr Kazarin (both coaches who have been banned for life) were continuing to workwith track and field athletes (VC 5.6).

•RusAF has not yet demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Taskforce that it has establisheda strong anti-doping culture within its sport (VC 6), or that it has created an open
environment that encourages whistleblowing (VC 6.2).

•Details of how coaches' employment contracts will be amended to remove incentives todope athletes have not yet been provided (VC 6.5).

2.2
The second condition is that the testing of Russian athletes (including not only IAAF testing ofIRTP athletes but also national-level testing by or on behalf of RUSADA) takes place without any
further adverse incidents or difficulties.
At the 13 June meeting, RusAF advised that as of 6 June 2017 there were 74 Russian track and fieldathletes in the IAAF's Registered Testing Pool and 113 in the National Registered Testing Pool, eachof them giving full whereabouts information so that they can be located for testing. RusAF is hopingthat by the end of the year there will be at least 150 Russian track and field athletes in the National
Registered Testing Pool.
The Taskforce has not been advised of any problems arising since April 2017 in the testing of Russian
track & field athletes by the IAAF's Athletics Integrity Unit or at national level under the supervisionof UK Anti-Doping. And WADA has just confirmed that UK Anti-Doping has completed the training ofa new cohort of RUSADA doping control officers, and WADA has authorised RUSADA to startplanning and coordinating training using those DCOs, under the supervision of the WADA-appointed
international experts and UK Anti-Doping. It is hoped this will lead to a significant increase in theamount of testing being conducted at national level starting in the near future.
The Athletics Integrity Unit has confirmed that it is now being given full access to ABP samples thathave been screened at the Moscow lab, so that it can ship them to a foreign lab for further testing
where it considers it appropriate to do so.
In addition, in relation to getting access to so-called 'closed cities' to test athletes located there:•WADA advises that the Russian authorities have provided access passes (or are in theprocess of providing access passes) for DCOs from PWC and IDTM to access closed cities
under the authority of the Ministry of Defence and RUSATOM (the Russian nuclear poweragency) to test athletes located in those cities, and is working on securing access to furtherclosed cities.

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•The Russian authorities have agreed with WADA that if an athlete declares in his/herwhereabouts filing that he/she will be in a closed city to which access has not yet been
granted, RUSADA (or the relevant international federation, if the athlete is in aninternational registered testing pool) should declare a Filing Failure against that athlete, forfailing to provide locations that DCOs may access to test him or her. Three Filing Failures orMissed Tests in one year constitutes an anti-doping rule violation, and therefore WADA
considers this measure should provide a strong incentive to athletes to avoid being in closed
cities that DCOs cannot access to test them.

•The Russian authorities have also agreed that RUSADA will monitor athletes who are not in a
Registered Testing Pool, and will target test any of those athletes who are regularly locating
themselves in closed cities that DCOs cannot access, or even move them into the National
Registered Testing Pool so that they will be exposed to Filing Failures if they continue thatpractice.

•RusAF has advised that there is currently only one Russian track and field athlete in aRegistered Testing Pool who lives in a closed city (to take care of her elderly parents). It has
rented an apartment for her next to (but outside) the closed city, and has provided theaddress to RUSADA so that it can continue to test her. RusAF has also confirmed that it will
actively monitor its athletes who are not in any Registered Testing Pool to see if any of them
regularly go into closed cities that cannot be accessed by DCOs, and will work proactively toaddress any issues as soon as they arise.

Subject to seeing how well these arrangements work in practice, the Taskforce considers that inprinciple they may be sufficient to satisfy this condition.
2.3
The third condition is that RusAF must deliver a written report that provides a rigorous root
cause analysis of the legal and practical reasons why it has been unable to date to enforce theprovisional suspensions imposed on Russian track & field coaches, and an explanation, supported byan independent legal opinion, of how in the future, whether through changes in the law, incontractual arrangements or otherwise, it will be able to enforce all suspensions (whether provisionalor final) imposed on athletes and athlete support personnel under its jurisdiction in an effective andtimely fashion.
RusAF has not yet provided a written report that meets these requirements, but it has promised to
do so now that this condition has been fully discussed with and explained to it. RusAF has advisedthat it has identified provisions in the Labor Code that enable it to ensure that coaches who arecharged with doping offences and provisionally suspended can be suspended from employment ascoaches of RusAF athletes pending determination of the charge. It has also confirmed that it
understands the importance of ensuring that no RusAF coaches or athletes are working with Dr
Portugalov, Mr Chegin, or any of the other coaches or athletes who are serving a doping ban, andhas taken various steps aimed at achieving this.
2.4
The fourth condition is that there must be an appropriate official response to the McLaren
reports, specifically addressing Professor McLaren's findings that officials from the Ministry for Sport,
the FSB, and the Centre for Sport Preparation were involved in the doping scheme, either byconvincingly rebutting those findings or else by acknowledging and properly addressing them.
The Russian Minister of Sport, Pavel Kolobkov, attended our meeting with RusAF in Moscow on 13
June 2017, and so we were able to explain to him directly how important it is that this requirement3

is properly satisfied, in order to convince Council that the issues that led to RusAF's current problems
have been properly acknowledged and addressed, and there will be no repetition of them. The
Minister promised that the Russian authorities would respond to the findings in the McLaren reports
in the next two to six weeks. The Taskforce awaits that response, and will report to Council on its
adequacy (or otherwise) once it has received it and had a chance to review it.
2.5
The fifth condition is that RusAF takes demonstrable objective and practical steps to cultivate
the clean sport movement championed by Andrey Dmitriev and his colleagues, including having
RusAF’s leading officials, athletes and coaches speak in support of the movement, and providing
financial and other practical assistance to the movement as appropriate.
At the meeting in Moscow on 13 June 2017, we met with Mikhail Vinogradov, a key member of theClean Sport Movement and the Rocket Science Project, and were advised of the following:•The Clean Sport Movement and the associated Rocket Science Project were founded inOctober 2016. They are dedicated to proving to Russian track and field athletes that dopingis bad for their health and that they can succeed without it. The current members areEvgeniy Pishcalov (former long-distance runner), Vasily Permitin (current long-distancerunner, former Russian national team member for mountain running), Mikhail Vinogradov(science advisor), Sergei Litvinov (current Russian national champion, hammer throwing),
Ilya Terentiev (current Russian under-23 national champion, hammer throwing), Stepan
Kiseleve (current Russian national champion, marathon), Rinas Akhmadeev (2016 Russian
national champion, 5,000m), Yaroslav Rybakov (former world class high jumper), andZhavaranak Ihar (former long-distance runner, current coach).

•To date, they have started developing a presence on social media in Russia, and haveestablished a telephone line for people to provide information about doping in Russian trackand field. In addition, RusAF has published an official letter supporting the movement, they
have had a number of meetings to discuss how it can support the movement, and it is clear
to him that RusAF's top officials are committed to changing the old culture of doping inRussian track & field. RusAF has also assisted the movement in getting support (including
potentially financial support) from the Ministry of Sport, and the Russian Olympic
Committee has also been supportive.

•Mr Vinogradov considers that the culture is slowing changing, as top officials (includingRusAF officials) have been sending consistent messages that there is now a serious antidoping attitude at the top of the sport. Whereas previously other athletes were laughing at
the Clean Sport Movement, in his view that has stopped, because they have demonstrated
that it is possible to achieve top results without doping. There is still work to be done,
however, especially at regional level, where he considers that the reinstatement ofRUSADA's activities will help a lot.

•RusAF advised that starting imminently, Russian national team head coach Yuri Borzakovskiy
is going to lead a series of activities (including a social media campaign) in support of clean
sport, supported by about eighty national team athletes, which will continue for the wholeof this season. Mr Vinogradov was excited by this news, and considered that it could have ahuge impact, because Mr Borzakovskiy is a national hero and everyone respects him andlistens to him. RusAF agreed to try to get Elena Isinbaeva to join the campaign too, becauseshe has similar influence.

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Mr Vinogradov said that moving forward, the Clean Sport Movement would like to find away for athletes who are not in a Registered Testing Pool nevertheless to provide their
whereabouts information and to get tested more often, to demonstrate that they are free ofdrugs.

•RusAF President Dimitri Shlyakhtin also indicated a desire to assist athlete and whistle
blower Andrei Dmitriev, if he returns to Russia, to sort out his problems with the militarydraft board and to secure new employment that will enable him to continue with histraining.

Again, the Taskforce is encouraged by these developments.
2.6
The sixth and final condition is that WADA has determined that all of the conditions it has
specified for the reinstatement of RUSADA as a truly autonomous, independent and properlyresourced national anti-doping organisation have been met, and on that basis has reinstated
RUSADA as the official, Code-compliant NADO for Russia.
WADA has just announced that:•The RUSADA Statutes have been amended to specify that its Supervisory Board must bechaired and vice-chaired by independent members of the Board, and not by any member ofthe Board that was nominated by the Ministry of Sport, the Russian Olympic Committee, or
the Russian Paralympic Committee.

•As a result, Elena Isinbaeva is stepping down as chair of the RUSADA Supervisory Board.

•RUSADA has adopted a new code of ethics, binding on all staff members as well as all
members of its Supervisory Board, which contains clear conflict of interest provisions,
including provisions that members of the Supervisory Board must act solely in the interestsof RUSADA, and not in the interests of any body that nominated them.

•Acceptable solutions have been reached to the problems of access to so-called 'closed cities'
for testing purposes and of access to ABP samples sent to the Moscow anti-doping
laboratory (see above).

As a result, WADA has permitted RUSADA to begin planning and implementing drug-testing by its
new cohort of DCOs, under the supervision of UK Anti-Doping and the international experts
appointed by WADA (see above).
WADA has said: 'RUSADA … remains non-compliant [with the World Anti-Doping Code] until suchtime as they meet the remaining reinstatement criteria … outlined within an agreed roadmap. Theroadmap includes a full audit by WADA of RUSADA's anti-doping operations, [which] is tentatively
scheduled for September 2017'. The Taskforce's understanding is that if that audit reveals no issues,and if all other criteria set out in the roadmap are completed (including addressing the McLarenfindings), then the WADA Foundation Board may be asked to consider the reinstatement of RUSADA
at its meeting in November 2017.

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Recommended action/next steps
3.
Based on the above, the Taskforce considers that since its last report to Council in April
2017, material progress has been made towards reaching several of the conditions established byCouncil for reinstatement of RusAF to IAAF membership. As detailed above, however, thoseconditions have not yet been met in full. Rather, several important steps remain outstanding.
For these reasons, the Taskforce recommends that:4.
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Council resolves to suspend RusAF from IAAF membership until the August 2017 meetingof Congress, in accordance with Article 15.7(a) of the IAAF Constitution;•Council further resolves to report that decision to Congress at its August meeting, inaccordance with Article 15.12 of the IAAF Constitution, and to formally propose that
Congress resolves, pursuant to Article 15.1(a) of the IAAF Constitution, to continue thesuspension of RusAF's membership of the IAAF until all of the conditions set by Council forthe cure of RusAF's breaches of the Objects of the IAAF and for the consequent
reinstatement of RusAF's membership have been met; and•Council's above decisions are notified to RusAF in writing before 3 July 2017, inaccordance with Article 15.4 of the IAAF Constitution, so that it has notice of what
Congress is being asked to decide at its meeting in August 2017.

Rune Andersen, Taskforce Chair, 27 June 20176