The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), track and field’s governing body, voted unanimously on Friday to continue Russia’s suspension from international competition, including the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Officials said that Russian runners who can prove they are not tainted by doping may apply to the doping review board to compete at the Olympics as “neutral athletes.” The council also voted that athletes who have made “extraordinary contributions to the fight against doping in sport should be able to apply for such permission,” leaving the door open for Yulia Stepanova, an 800-meter runner and whistleblower who is now living in the United States, to possibly compete.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) could still decide to admit Russia into the Games in August. It will meet on Tuesday, June 21, in Lausanne, Switzerland. gave lifetime suspensions and fines, “the discussion will have to address the difficult decision between collective responsibility and individual justice.”

Russia was banned by the IAAF from international track and field competition in November, after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) released a report detailing widespread, state-sponsored doping, bribery, and corruption among the sport’s officials and athletes. The investigation was spurred by a German television documentary produced by Hajo Seppelt in December 2014.

Fiona OKeeffe Is on the Road to Recovery WADA report released on Wednesday, Russian athletes have failed drug tests and evaded doping control since the competition ban was instituted. Among the findings, the report said that the country’s track and field athletes have posted 52 adverse drug test findings, 23 missed tests, and 736 drug tests that were declined or canceled.

Rune Andersen, chairman of the IAAF task force monitoring the Russian compliance process, said during a press conference on Friday that Russia is 18 to 24 months away from meeting the criteria necessary to be reinstated.

“Although there has been significant progress toward satisfaction of the verification criteria, several important verification criteria have not been fully satisfied,” he said. “In particular, the deep-seated culture of tolerance or worse for doping that got [the Russian Athletics Federation] suspended in the first place appears not to have been changed materially to date.”

Russia’s absence would have a significant effect. At the 2012 Olympics, the country’s track and field athletes won 17 medals, including eight golds. Only the United States, with 29 and nine, respectively, won more total and gold medals.

The scandal has had far-reaching implications on many athletes. For example, two Russian 800-meter runners, Mariya Savinova and Ekaterina Poistogova, have been banned. Stripped of their Olympic and IAAF World Championships medals, Alysia Montaño, of the United States, would have a silver medal from the 2010 world indoor championships and three more bronzes from the 2012 Olympics and the 2011 and 2013 outdoor world championships.

Some U.S. athletes agreed with the IAAF decision on Friday, including Kate Grace, a middle-distance contender at the Olympic Trials in July, who has the fastest outdoor 800-meter time in the U.S. so far this year.

“I had been cynical that there would be a response without any teeth in it. With so many stories recently of doping and corruption, this is a welcome change. I sympathize with clean Russian athletes, but I hope the IOC defers to the IAAF ruling,” she said in a text message to Runner's World.

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The IOC has ordered athlete samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics to be retested with the latest technology, saying that 31 athletes across six sports from the 2008 Games would be barred from the 2016 Olympics after the new tests came back positive for banned substances.

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In CA Notice at Collection released on Thursday, the IAAF said Coe forwarded emails on to the Ethics Committee for investigation and he has denied details of the BBC report.

“Seb has never denied hearing rumors about corruption,” the statement read, in part. “In fact, he has said on many occasions that when alerted to rumors he asked people to pass them on to the Ethics Commission to be investigated.”

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