Leading Russian anti-doping official's death 'very unexpected'

Leading Russian anti-doping official's death 'very unexpected', The above controlling administrator of the Russian Anti-Doping Bureau has died, two months afterwards resigning amidst a doping aspersion that triggered the abeyance of the country's clue and acreage program.

In a blast account with The Associated Press on Monday, RUSADA backer Nataliya Koshel accepted that Nikita Kamaev died on Sunday. He was 52.

"The basic could cause of afterlife was a massive affection attack," RUSADA said in a statement.

Kamaev is the additional above chief RUSDA official to die this month.

Kamaev was "an accomplished and compassionate administrator who was acclaimed by his top akin of professionalism," the bureau said.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko paid accolade to Kamaev for accepting "created" Russia's anti-doping system.

"It's a actual abrupt death. The man seemed advantageous and aggregate was fine," Mutko told Russia's R-Sport agency.

Former RUSADA accepted administrator Ramil Khabriev told the Tass account bureau he believed Kamaev had died at home afterwards activity affliction in his chest afterward a affair of cross-country skiing.

Kamaev's afterlife came beneath than two weeks afterwards addition above RUSADA figure. Founding administrator Vyacheslav Sinev, who larboard the bureau in 2010, died on Feb. 3, according to RUSADA, which didn't elaborate.

The World Anti-Doping Bureau issued a abrupt statement, adage it was "saddened" to apprentice of the deaths of the two men.

Kamaev and Khabriev accommodated in December as the Russian Sports Ministry pushed for the bureau to backpack out reforms beneath new leadership. That was a ages afterwards RUSADA was chock-full from administering biologic tests if the World Anti-Doping Bureau declared it non-compliant with all-around anti-doping rules.

A WADA agency accused RUSADA of accoutrement up cases of doping by arch Russian athletes, giving them beforehand ability of allegedly abruptness tests and acceptance banned athletes to abide competing.

The WADA address led the International Association of Athletics Federations to append Russia's clue and acreage affairs from all-around competition, abrogation its athletes in crisis of missing this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Kamaev was the circadian arch of RUSADA operations from 2011 until his abandonment in December. The day afterwards the WADA commission's address emerged accusing RUSADA of accoutrement up doping, he fabricated a angry aegis of the organization, adage it had been angry biologic use effectively, and claiming that the agency produced a biased address based on capricious affidavit from athletes who had been bent doping.

"Some of the issues accept a accurate activity and are, if you like, politicized," he said at the time.

Accusations that agents from Russia's FSB aegis account infiltrated the doping lab for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were the artefact of an "inflamed imagination," he added.
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