LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's return to international athletics edged closer on Wednesday when the head of the World Athletics Task Force declared his "guarded optimism" about progress being made by the country's federation six years after it was banned.
RUSAF was thrown out in 2015 after the revelation of widespread state-sponsored doping and extensive cover-ups and it has been a long and painful path since, with the investigative Task Force headed by Norwegian Rune Anderson repeatedly frustrated by the country's intransigence.
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