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Back in November Russia was suspended from international athletics after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) exposed widespread state-sponsored cheating and corruption. The executive director of Russia's Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), Nikita Kamayev, resigned as Russia scrambled to have the competition ban lifted in time for the 2016 Olympics. Ten weeks ago Kamayev announced that he wanted to write a book [reuters.com] revealing the history of doping in Russian athletics.

"I want to write a book about the true story of sport pharmacology and doping in Russia since 1987 while being a young scientist working in a secret lab in the USSR Institute of Sports Medicine," he told the newspaper in an email. "I have the information and facts that have never been published."

Just as inspectors from the athletics’ world governing body IAAF were due to start a two-day visit to Russia to asses any progress made with regard to anti-doping processes, Kamayev suddenly died of a massive heart attack. In a remarkable coincidence, the former founding chairman of RUSADA, Vyacheslav Sinev, who left the agency in 2010, also unexpectedly died on 3 February.

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