Yelena Isinbayeva quits as Russian anti-doping board chief

Pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva yesterday quit as head of the supervisory council at Russia's anti-doping agency, a step demanded by international officials as Moscow seeks to get its suspension lifted

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Pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva yesterday quit as head of the supervisory council at Russia's anti-doping agency, a step demanded by international officials as Moscow seeks to get its suspension lifted.

Russian sports bosses agreed earlier this month that Isinbayeva would leave in line with a request from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), one of a raft of criteria the country needs to fulfill in order to get its drug-testing body RUSADA reinstated. Press reports, however, said that Isinbayeva would remain as a member of RUSADA's supervisory board.

Rusada has been suspended since 2015 in the wake of the report by Richard McLaren which uncovered widespread doping in Russian sport.

"I'm happy that I've achieved my goal. I know that now I need to make way for a new chairman who will complete RUSADA's full reinstatement," she was reported as saying by Interfax.

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