Russia to reply to athletics doping allegations by 1700 GMT today

Russia will dispatch its response to damning doping allegations to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) by 1700 GMT in a bid to show the country's "innocence", the head of the athletics federation said Thursday. The IAAF council was due to hold a conference-call meeting on Friday having told Moscow to respond to the allegations contained in a no-holds-barred report issued by an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday. The head of Russia's