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The exclusion of transgender athletes will come into effect from March 31 and was confirmed by president Lord Coe at Thursday’s World Athletics Council meeting.

Russian track and field athletes, banned by World Athletics in November 2015 following the revelations of a concerted home doping regime, account for almost a quarter of the names on the latest overall list of offenders issued by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).

An independent audit on the cultural changes within Russian Athletics Federation in terms of making progress towards international reinstatement will be conducted in "mid-to-late October", the World Athletics Council has ruled.

The World Athletics Council is set to discuss the ongoing suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation at its meeting prior to the World Championships in Eugene.

World Athletics has confirmed that the Russian Athletics Federation is now fully up to date with all of its overdue payments for costs related to work on its reinstatement.

The Russian Athletics Federation has now paid off its complete debt to World Athletics for 2021, its acting President, Irina Privalova, has claimed.

The Russian Athletics Federation has paid off its debt to World Athletics for the third quarter of 2021, its acting head, Irina Privalova, has said.

Disruptions to the Russian banking system because of Western sanctions imposed in the wake of the Ukraine invasion have shifted the timetable for the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) repayment to World Athletics.

More than 40 Russian athletes have demanded their federation appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the World Athletics blanket ban imposed on March 1.

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) must pay arrears to World Athletics by Friday (March 18) or work on its reinstatement to international competition will be suspended and all recent gains will be lost.