Russian athletics misses fine deadline and WADA slaps back hard at U.S. Office of National Drug Policy report

While the world suffers with the continued impact of COVID-19, the tug-of-war over doping — especially Russian doping — has hardly missed a beat. In Moscow, at the World Athletics office in Monaco and at the World Anti-Doping Agency headquarters in Montreal, it’s already a hot summer.

● The Russia Athletics Federation (RusAF) was due to pay a $5 million fine to World Athletics today (1 July) in order to allow some of its athletes to be able to…