Athletics | A special bet from the Russian national team – three champions who have fallen victim to doping were hired as coaches

Russia has been at loggerheads with the world anti-doping agency Wada for a long time, and recent information from the country indicates that the scandal against international anti-doping work continues.

Inside The Games, a website that closely follows international sports by In Russia, three new coaches have been hired for the country's national walking team, all of whom have been caught in doping violations.

According to Inside the Games, the Russian news agency Tass says that Jelena Lashmanova, Sergei Kirdyapkin and Olga Kanishkina have been appointed to the national team as “endurance coaches”.

Lashmanova, 31, won Olympic gold in London 2012 and World Championship gold in Moscow 2013, but was later caught using an epo derivative.

Kirdjapkin, 43, also won Olympic gold in London and became world champion in Helsinki 2005 and Berlin 2009, but lost his championship due to ambiguities in his biological passport.

Kanishkina, 38, won the Olympic gold in Beijing 2008 and the World Cup gold in Osaka a year earlier, and in addition to them, she was the champion at the Berlin 2009 and Daegu 2011 World Championships. He lost them because of doping.