FILE PHOTO: Athletics - World Athletics Championships - women's high jump victory ceremony - London Stadium, London, Britain - August 12, 2017 - Neutral athlete Maria Lasitskene (Gold) poses with the medal. REUTERS/Matthew Childs
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian high jump world champion Maria Lasitskene on Tuesday accused her country's own sports authorities of failing to protect athletes from the deepening doping crisis, in a rare public broadside at top officials.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday handed Russia a new, this time four-year, ban from top global sporting events, including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup, for tampering with laboratory data.
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