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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Sport
David Wharton

BRIEF: Banned Russian athletes could learn fate in June

April 21--Russia's banned track and field athletes, hoping to be reinstated for the 2016 Summer Olympics, could learn their fate by mid-June.

The international track federation announced Thursday that its council will convene in Vienna on June 17. Officials are expected to rule on Russia's fate during a full-day meeting.

The ban was handed down last year after a World Anti-Doping Agency report alleged widespread cheating among Russian officials, coaches and athletes.

Earlier this week, officials in that country proposed several changes to bolster their doping enforcement program.

In other news, WADA announced that Bolivian authorities had resolved an issue involving non-accredited laboratories and that the South American nation had been removed from the non-compliant list.

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