IAAF TASKFORCE: INTERIM REPORT TO IAAF COUNCIL, 1 DECEMBER 20161.

On behalf of the Taskforce, I am pleased to present this third report to the IAAF
Council on the progress that the Russian Athletics Federation ('RusAF') has made todate in satisfying the conditions for reinstatement set out in the Taskforce's Terms ofReference.

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As a reminder, the Council suspended RusAF from membership in November 2015,
after a WADA Independent Commission concluded there was a systemic and deeplyrooted culture of doping in Russian athletics. The Council decided that, in order tobe reinstated to membership, RusAF must satisfy a number of specified 'Verification
Criteria', and must demonstrate that the following three 'Reinstatement Conditions'"have been met, and can reasonably be expected to continue to be met movingforward":
1st,that RUSAF complies in full with the World Anti-Doping Code and IAAF AntiDoping Rules;

2nd,that the IAAF and RUSADA (the Russian NADO) are able to conduct their antidoping programmes in Russia (in particular, drug-testing) effectively andwithout interference; and3rd,that as a result, the reintegration of Russian athletes into international
competitions will not jeopardise the integrity of those competitions.

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At the Council's meeting on 17 June 2016, the Taskforce reported that, althoughmany of the Verification Criteria had been satisfied, several important ones had not.
In addition, RusAF had been unable to secure the assistance of the Russian criminal
authorities for the investigation by the French criminal authorities into the alleged
conspiracy between former officials of the IAAF and ARAF, as required by the Council
at its March meeting. And Professor Richard McLaren had reported that the Ministryfor Sport and other public agencies, far from supporting the anti-doping effort, hadin fact orchestrated systematic doping and the covering up of positive drug tests. In
such circumstances, the Taskforce was clear that the Reinstatement Conditions had
not been satisfied. It therefore recommended, and the IAAF Council decided, that
RusAF should not be reinstated to membership of the IAAF at that time.

4.

Since June 2016, the Taskforce has met twice in person (once in Rio during theOlympics, at the suggestion of the IAAF President, and once last night). Andrepresentatives of the Taskforce have met once with representatives of WADA, andtwice with RusAF president Mr Dimitri Shlyakhtin and with Mr Artem Yakubov from
the Ministry for Sport.

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I can report that, under the very professional leadership of its president, Mr Dimitri
Shlyakhtin, RusAF has made further progress towards satisfying the outstanding
Verification Criteria, including rolling out anti-doping education modules for coaches
and athletes, imposing clear contractual and regulatory obligations on coaches and1

athletes, and strengthening its ability to enforce its rules effectively. In addition, theRussian Parliament has passed a law that makes it a criminal offence for coaches andother support persons to supply prohibited substances to athletes. And weunderstand that progress has been made in securing the cooperation of the Russiancriminal authorities with the French criminal authorities, as the Council specificallyrequired. In my view, these encouraging developments would not have happened if
you had not made the brave decision that you did in June last year.
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One key remaining issue is how the Taskforce and the Council can be satisfied that
the IAAF and RUSADA (once it is reinstated) will be able to conduct their anti-doping
programmes in Russia without interference, given Professor McLaren's findings that
Ministry for Sport officials and other public agencies doped Russian athletes andthen interfered with drug-testing to cover up that doping. In the view of theTaskforce, at least the following will need to happen to address this point:
6.1

Professor McLaren's findings will have to be either convincingly rebutted, orelse acknowledged and properly addressed; and6.2

all of the conditions fixed by WADA for the reinstatement of RUSADA as atruly autonomous, independent and properly-resourced national anti-doping
organisation will have to be met.

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On the first point, Professor McLaren is providing his final report on 9 December
2016, and we have arranged to visit Moscow in January 2017 to assess the reaction
to that report. On the second point, discussions are ongoing between WADA andthe Russian authorities on a roadmap for RUSADA to begin operations again as a fullycompliant NADO hopefully before the end of 2017.

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Therefore, the Taskforce recommends that there be no change to RusAF’s status
now, but it will report again on progress at the Council’s next meeting, in February
2017, when it hopes to be able to identify a clear roadmap and timetable for RusAF’sreinstatement.

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The Taskforce has noted Mr Butov’s request to the Council to consider re-admitting
certain youth athletes, Master’s level athletes, and technical officials to competition.
The Taskforce recommends that that request be tabled for consideration at thenext Council meeting, when the Taskforce will be able to report back after its visit toMoscow in January 2017.

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The Taskforce also asks the Council to approve the proposed changes to theVerification Criteria highlighted in the attached Exhibit 1. The changes extend thetesting requirements beyond 2016 (see section 5); (b) confirm the further
requirement approved by the Council last year (cooperation with the French criminal
investigation) (see section 7.1); and (c) add in the requirement that RusAF cover thecosts of the Taskforce and of the various required disciplinary cases as a further
condition of reinstatement (see section 7.2).

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In addition, at its meeting in June 2016 the Council accepted the Taskforce'srecommendation to adopt a new Competition Rule 22.1A, allowing athletes of asuspended national federation to apply for special eligibility to compete ininternational competitions as 'Neutral Athletes' pending reinstatement of thenational federation. Many Russian athletes applied under that new rule for specialeligibility for the Rio Olympics, and many of them challenged the rule in court when
their applications were denied. Those challenges were rejected, but the IAAF’slawyers have advised amending the wording of the rule slightly to deal with some ofthe practical issues raised, so that the rule operates smoothly moving forward,
offering athletes of a suspended national federation a pathway to compete ininternational competitions as neutral athletes pending reinstatement of theirfederation’s membership of the IAAF. The Taskforce therefore recommends that
the Council approve the proposed amendments to Competition Rule 22.1A. If
helpful, Jon Taylor could take us through the basic detail of the proposed changes.

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Finally, if I may be permitted one extraneous comment: I have been advised of theproposal to establish a new independent Integrity Unit at the IAAF. As theindependent chairman of the Taskforce, this proposal seems to me to be groundbreaking, and it strikes me that the new Integrity Unit could play a very importantrole in future in helping the IAAF to determine non-compliance and to fix sanctions
quickly and efficiently, and also to monitor and guide the efforts of non-compliant
national federations to bring themselves back into compliance with the anti-doping
and other integrity requirements of IAAF members. I look forward to hearing theresults of your deliberations and the deliberations of your Congress on this proposal.

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That completes this interim report by the Taskforce to the Council.

Rune Andersen, Taskforce Chair
1 December 20163