Recently elected president of the Athletes' Commission of the Russian Athletics Federation, Yelena Isinbayeva is already preparing to act in the event of the suspension of the Rio Games. The pole vaulter assured her country's press that she would file a complaint with the International Court of Human Rights if Russia was excluded from the next Olympics. “This would be discriminatory and a violation of human rights,” she suggests. For his part, the president of the Russian Athletics Federation, Dmitriy Shlyaktin, shows very measured confidence in the IAAF's decision. He estimates that there is a one in two chance that the International Federation will suspend Russian athletics from the Rio 2016 Games next month.
— Published on May 24, 2016
