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Euro Athletics boss feels Russia won't be part of Rio '16

<p>European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen has doubts whether Russia, currently suspended from all athletics events following allegations of state-sponsored doping, will make necessary reforms in time to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics</p>

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Paris: European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen has doubts whether Russia, currently suspended from all athletics events following allegations of state-sponsored doping, will make necessary reforms in time to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Russia were recently hit with an indefinite suspension by IAAF after a WADA independent commission revealed that Russia's anti-doping agency had "routinely" violated global testing standards.

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