Frankie Fredericks to monitor Russia athletics

Ex-Olympic sprinter Frankie Fredericks is part of a five-man team that will monitor Russia's athletics federation as it bids to regain IAAF membership.

Russia was provisionally suspended by the sport's governing body after a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report alleged "state-sponsored doping".

Anti-doping expert Rune Andersen will lead the team that includes four-times Olympic silver medalist Fredericks.

IAAF president Sebastian Coe said, "The inspection team has great experience."

Namibian Fredericks, 48, came second in the 100m and 200m at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games and is also a former world champion.

Andersen, who served as chief of anti-doping at the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee, will also be joined by International Association of Athletics Federation council members Abby Hoffman, Anna Riccardi and Geoff Gardner.