Russians in the dock

Twice the world 1,500 metres champion Tatyana Tomashova was one of seven Russian female atheletes to receive a two-year doping ban for manipulating drug samples, the Russian athletics federation (RAF). Along with Tomashova, world indoor 1,500 metres champion Yelena Soboleva, distance runners Yuliya Fomenko and Svetlana Cherkasova, European discus champion Darya Pishchalnikova, former hammer world record holder Gulfia Khanafeyeva and former world 5,000 metres champion Olga Yegorova were banned