That's it from the IAAF's decision to provisionally suspended Russia athletics federation in the wake of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report that alleged "state-sponsored doping".

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Russia's council member at the IAAF, Mikhail Butov, says the length of his country's ban from track and field will depend on how convincingly Russian representatives can make the case that they have reformed.

"The period [of suspension] is unfortunately not prescribed and therefore will depend on how convincing we are with our case and how objective the commission is," he told reporters. "We'll work with them.''

The United States representative on the IAAF council, Stephanie Hightower, called suspending the Russian track team "the only proper course of action".

Hightower, the president of USA track and field, was one of 22 council members to vote in favour of banning Russia from international competition.

"The IAAF has an obligation to protect athletes, and this action sends a clear message to clean athletes that protecting them and protecting the sport, with a culture of accountability, is our top priority," said Hightower.

The IAAF provisionally suspended Russia after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report that alleged "state-sponsored doping".  

A wada spokesperson said: “Wada welcomes the IAAF's decision to declare the All-Russian Athletics Federation (Araf) non-compliant and provisionally suspend the federation; this was one of the core recommendations in the Wada independent commission's Report.

"The decision is positive news for clean athletes worldwide.

"We will make no further comment at this time.”

Mike Costello
BBC Radio 5 live athletics commentator

"This is an encouraging strength of feeling, a clear signal to Russia that their era of winning dirty is over.

“Many spoke of this as a defining day for Lord Coe - it isn’t. There’s much more to do but this is an encouraging day for the new IAAF president.”

In a television interview, IAAF president Lord Coe was asked if he expected to see Russia competing at the Rio Games next year.

"It is entirely up to the Russian federation and the speed with which we can enact chance," he said.

"Our verification team will be tough. We will want to make sure before there is a reintroduction to the sport for their athletes and their federation that those changes have taken place and not before.

"It is for the IAAF and no other organisation to make that judgement."

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If you think Russia is the only country with systemic doping problems think again, according to UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner. 

And Warner said he feels sports other than athletics have reason to be concerned at how Russian sport is run. 

"This iceberg spreads in two different directions," he said before the IAAF provisionally suspended Russia's athletics federation. "I suspect there are probably four, five or six nations that athletics has a problem with."

He added: "Every other international sport today should be looking at Russian sport and looking at whether the men and women who compete in their events are clean."

"They do not have robust anti-doping regimes. They are asleep on the job - and they have to be rooted out."

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Here's more from Russia Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, who said the provisional ban of the country's athletics federation is "temporary" and the "problem is solvable". 

"The chance to perform at the [2016] Olympic Games is still there," Mutko told Russian state news agency TASS over the phone.

"The suspension is temporary and we need to implement a number of demands in the next few months."

Former sprinter Frankie Fredericks, head of the IAAF athletes commission, believes Lord Coe is the right man to clean up athletics. 

"We are angry at the damage being caused to the reputation and credibility of athletics and are united alongside our president to not shy away from the major challenges that face our sport," he said in an IAAF statement.

"The athletes will work together to continue the process of cleaning up athletics to ensure those athletes training and competing cleanly are not tainted by the minority.

"We send a clear message to clean athletes in a dirty system to report any doping or cheating that they see or hear about.

"We are 100% in support of president Coe and believe that he is the leader that our sport needs to instigate the necessary actions swiftly and strongly."

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Prior to the news of the IAAF provisionally suspended Russia's Athletics federation, pole vault world record holder, and one of Russia's most decorated athletes, Yelena Isinbayeva, wrote an open letter.

She said that she was clean, and that to deny Russian athletes a chance to compete at Rio Olympics would be "unjust and unfair". 

"Throughout my sports career, I honestly worked, trained, won world championships and the Olympic Games, broke world records," said the 33-year-old, who won bronze at London 2012. 

"All my victories are honest, clean and well-deserved. I have clearly and strictly observed and continue to comply with all the rules of the anti-doping campaign.  

"But I urge you not to align all athletes with the same brush."

This has just come in from the Russian team at BBC Monitoring:

Russian Sports Minister Vitaliky Mutko says the IAAF's suspension of Russia's Athletics Federation is "temporary" and that the "problem is solvable", the Tass news agency reports. 

He said a special commission is still to look into the affair and that there is still "a chance" that Russia will take part in the Olympic Games in Rio.

In the IAAF details about the provisional suspension of Russia's Athletics Federation, it said the punishment does not:

• prevent athletes in Russia from participating in domestic competitions.
• remove or waive the obligations on international level athletes in Russia to comply with the IAAF anti-doping rules, including continuing to be subject to out of competition testing.

The consequences of the provisional suspension are:

• athletes, and athlete support personnel from Russia may not compete in International Competitions including World Athletic Series competitions and the Olympic Games.
• Russia will not be entitled to host the 2016 World Race Walking Cup (Cheboksary) and 2016 World Junior Championships (Kazan).
• that Araf delegates the conduct of all outstanding doping cases to Court of Arbitration for Sport.

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IAAF statement president Lord Coe says the suspension of Russia's Athletics Federation (Araf) is the "toughest sanction" that could have been taken.  

“Today we have been dealing with the failure of Araf and made the decision to provisionally suspend them, the toughest sanction we can apply at this time," he said.

"But we discussed and agreed that the whole system has failed the athletes, not just in Russia, but around the world.

"This has been a shameful wake up call and we are clear that cheating at any level will not be tolerated. 

"To this end, the IAAF, Wada, the member federations and athletes need to look closely at ourselves, our cultures and our processes to identify where failures exist and be tough in our determination to fix them and rebuild trust in our sport. 

"There can be no more important focus for our sport.”

"The council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has provisionally suspended the All-Russia Athletic Federation (Araf) as an IAAF Member with immediate effect.

The decision was taken at today’s 201st IAAF Council Meeting which was held by teleconference and chaired from London by IAAF President Sebastian Coe.

"A total of 24 Members of Council took part in the meeting: 22 voted in favour of the sanction against Araf, who have been officially informed of the council’s decision, one voted against. 

"The Council Member from Russia was not eligible to participate in the vote."