IAAF TASKFORCE REPORT TO COUNCIL, 11 MARCH 20191.
I am pleased to present this report on the progress that RusAF has made since
December 2018 to satisfy the conditions set by Council for its reinstatement to membershipof the IAAF. You should have copies of the report in front of you; I will only read out thehighlights.
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As a reminder:

2.1
RusAF was suspended from membership of the IAAF in November 2015, after a
WADA Commission concluded there was a systemic and deeply-rooted culture of doping inRussian athletics. Council decided that, in order to be reinstated to membership, RusAF must
demonstrate that it meets the following Reinstatement Conditions: (i) it complies in fullwith the World Anti-Doping Code and IAAF Anti-Doping Rules; (ii) the IAAF and RUSADA (theRussian national anti-doping organisation) are and will be able to conduct their anti-doping
programmes in Russia (in particular, drug-testing) effectively and without interference; and(iii) as a result, the reintegration of Russian athletes into international competitions will notjeopardise the integrity of those competitions. A number of specific Verification Criteriawere identified that have to be met as part of this task.
2.2
In April 2017, Council approved a Roadmap proposed by the Taskforce thatidentified six specific conditions to be met in order for the Taskforce to consider
recommending RusAF's reinstatement. And in 2018 Council added a further requirement
relating to the LIMS data provided by WADA to the IAAF in December 2017.
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All of these requirements are designed to ensure that RusAF establishes a culture ofzero tolerance towards doping in Russian athletics, and that RusAF, RUSADA, and the publicauthorities in Russia, working in cooperation, create an anti-doping infrastructure that iseffective in detecting and deterring cheats, so that RusAF and its athletes can startparticipating again in international competitions without jeopardising the integrity of thosecompetitions.
Engagement with RusAF since the Council's December 2018 meeting
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Since December 2018, the Taskforce has continued to receive monthly updates fromRusAF on its anti-doping efforts, which have included (a) conditioning access to competition
for athletes and coaches on their successful completion of on-line anti-doping training
courses and acceptance of anti-doping obligations; (b) sending training camp information toRUSADA so that it can locate athletes for testing; and (c) determining whether to endorse
applications by RusAF athletes to the IAAF Doping Review Board for special eligibility tocompete as neutral athletes in international competitions.
4.
In January 2019, RusAF withdrew the appeal that it had filed in late 2018 with theCourt of Arbitration for Sport against Council's decision not to reinstate RusAF in July 2018.
In accordance with Verification Criterion 7.2, as a condition of reinstatement RusAF will haveto pay the costs that the IAAF incurred in responding to that appeal.
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RUSADA collected 1,763 samples (blood or urine) from RusAF athletes in 2018.
RUSADA has 430 RusAF athletes in its testing pools for 2019 (up from 380 in 2018). It hascollected 592 samples (blood or urine) from them in the year to date; and it expects tocollect a total of 1,900-2,000 samples from RusAF athletes by the end of 2019. Meanwhile1the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has advised that it continues to be able to test RusAF's
international-level athletes effectively and without any improper interference.
6.
Just yesterday, ARD broadcast new allegations about Valentin Maslakov. MrMaslakov was head coach of the Russian national team in the period 2007-2015, during
which (we now know) there was widespread doping in Russian track & field. He personallycoached the women’s 4x400m relay team that won gold at the 2013 IAAF WorldChampionships, but has since been disqualified and two of its members banned for doping.
Mr Maslakov resigned as national team coach in January 2015, shortly after the dopingallegations first broke. However, ARD alleges that he is now back coaching 400m nationalteam athletes (although in the ARD documentary that is denied by current national teamhead coach Yury Borzakovskiy). ARD also alleges that of the 94 coaches now working withnational team athletes, 63 of them coached in the key period prior to 2015. These
allegations are of serious concern to the Taskforce, since they contradict assurances
previously received from RusAF that it was disassociating itself from coaches from theprevious era. The Taskforce will write to RusAF seeking its comments on ARD’s allegations asa matter of urgency, and will follow up as necessary once it has received those comments.
Current status of remaining reinstatement conditions
7.
Subject to the issue just raised, as far as the Taskforce is aware, the various
requirements that RusAF previously satisfied remain satisfied, i.e., there has been no backsliding. In particular, RUSADA remains on the list of Signatories compliant with the WADA
Code, because (albeit two weeks after the 31 December 2018 deadline) the Russianauthorities allowed an independent expert appointed by WADA to access and extract fromthe instruments and server in the Moscow laboratory an authentic copy of all data relating
to its analysis of samples collected from Russian athletes in the period 2012 to August 2015.
8.
The following reinstatement requirements that were fixed by Council at its
December meeting remain outstanding:
8.1
Council resolved that, in accordance with Verification Criterion 7.2, RusAF must
reimburse the IAAF for all of the costs incurred by the IAAF prior to and after thereinstatement of RusAF as a result of the need to impose, enforce and assess compliancewith the Reinstatement Conditions and the Verification Criteria (including the Taskforce
costs, the costs of the Russia-related cases that have been taken to CAS, and the costs
incurred by the Doping Review Board from 1 January 2018 in dealing with applications from
Russian athletes for neutral athlete status). In October 2018 the IAAF invoiced RusAF for thecosts incurred through 30 June 2018, and it has just invoiced RusAF for the further costs
incurred between 30 June and 31 December 2018. It plans to invoice RusAF for subsequentcosts on a quarterly basis (rather than monthly, as previously discussed). RusAF has not yet
paid the outstanding invoices, citing financial difficulties. It has been in contact with the IAAF
to discuss the mechanics and logistics of payment of these and subsequent invoices.
8.2
Council also resolved that RusAF must commit, in a formal legal agreement with theIAAF, to pay any further relevant costs incurred by the IAAF following RusAF’s reinstatement(e.g., the costs of monitoring compliance with post-reinstatement conditions, and the costsof any further cases that the AIU has to bring against Russian athletes). Those costs are to be
invoiced by the IAAF on a quarterly (rather than monthly) basis for payment by RusAF within
30 days of receipt, with appropriate remedies applicable in the event of non-payment. A
draft of this agreement will be circulated to RusAF shortly.

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8.3
Finally, referring to the LIMS database extract that WADA provided to the AIU in late2017, listing findings in respect of 1,800 samples collected from RusAF athletes in the period
2012 to August 2015, Council resolved that RusAF may not be reinstated unless and until theAIU confirms that it is satisfied that:(a)it has been given the information it requires to identify all of the RusAF
athletes who provided the samples listed in the extract of the LIMS databaseprovided by WADA to the AIU;(b)

it has received all of the analytical data produced by the Moscow lab when it
analysed those samples (i.e., the chromatograms, the electropherograms,chain of custody records, etc.);(c)

any samples that the AIU considers need to be re-analysed (and that are stillin the possession of the Moscow lab) have been sent to a WADA-accredited
laboratory for re-analysis;(d)these data and samples are authentic and have not been tampered with;and(e)

the AIU therefore has everything in the possession of the Moscow antidoping laboratory that it needs to determine whether any of the RusAF
athletes whose samples were included in the LIMS database has a case toanswer for breach of the IAAF Anti-Doping Rules and/or the RusAF AntiDoping Rules.

The current status is that (as noted above) an independent expert appointed by WADA
successfully extracted forensic copies of all of the relevant data (approximately 24 terabytesin total) from the Moscow laboratory in January 2019. WADA is currently in the process ofprocessing and authenticating those data. The AIU advises that it has been in close contact
with the relevant persons at WADA, and has been told that once the authentication process
has been concluded, AIU will be given access to the data relating to the RusAF athletes in theLIMS database as a matter of priority. The AIU stands ready to analyse those data, todetermine what samples still held in the Moscow laboratory need to be extracted and reanalysed, and ultimately to decide which of the athletes have a case to answer for breach of
the anti-doping rules, as soon as practicable. Depending on when exactly it obtains therelevant data from WADA, the AIU will make every effort to complete that task prior to theJune Council meeting, but it cannot give any assurances in this regard.
9. The Taskforce stands ready to provide any guidance or support that RusAF may need inensuring that the remaining requirements set out above are met as quickly as possible. If
and when they are met, then -- barring any backward steps (such as evidence emerging thatrequirements that the Taskforce thought had previously been met in fact have not beenmet, or are no longer being met) -- the Taskforce considers that it will be ready torecommend the reinstatement of RusAF’s membership benefits (potentially in phases). Anysuch recommendation will also include proposals as to the post-reinstatement conditions
that the Taskforce considers Council should impose on RusAF to guard against future backsliding.

3Recommendation
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Based on the above, the Taskforce RECOMMENDS that Council resolves simply tonote the contents of this report. The Taskforce will then report again at the Council
meeting in Monaco in June 2019.

Rune Andersen, Taskforce Chair
11 March 20194