Acting president of Russia's athletics federation Yulia Tarasenko speaks to journalists at the Russia's Olympic Committee building in Moscow, Russia November 23, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's suspended athletics federation named an acting president on Saturday a day after the sport's global governing body halted its reinstatement process and raised the possibility of it being expelled altogether.
Yulia Tarasenko, a federation vice-president, was named acting president after a presidium meeting in Moscow, replacing Dmitry Shlyakhtin, who was among the seven people provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) this week for serious breaches of anti-doping rules.
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