RUSSIA will be among the favourites to top the medal table at its home World Championships in August, largely because of a strong athletics team, that it has managed to preserve after the fall of the Soviet Union.
There were questions raised about the effectiveness of the country’s sports policies after Russia finished a disappointing fourth in the medal table at the 2012 Olympics in London, United Kingdom.
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