(12 Jan 2016) Russia is making efforts to reform after its doping scandal, the head of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) taskforce, set up to determine whether Russia's ban from global track and field should be lifted, said on Tuesday.
Russia was suspended by the IAAF - track and field's world governing body - from international competition, including the Olympics, in November after a report by a World Anti-Doping Agency panel detailed a state-sponsored doping programme.
Norwegian anti-doping expert Rune Andersen, who heads the five-person IAAF taskforce, held meetings on Monday and Tuesday in Moscow with Russian government and sports officials.
Andersen refused to say whether any new cases of malpractice beyond those revealed in the WADA commission's report had been brought to light in the course of the talks with the Russian officials.
He also refused to be drawn on whether the taskforce would visit the central Russian city of Saransk, home to a training centre for race-walkers which has seen over 30 positive drug tests in recent years among its athletes, including several Olympic medalists.
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