In a statement, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced that three athletics officials barred for life by the International Association of Athletics Associations have made an appeal to it to have their life bans from involvement in the sport of track and field annulled.

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2. In a statement, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has
announced that three athletics officials barred for life by the
International Association of Athletics Associations have made
an appeal to it to have their life bans from involvement in the
sport of track and field annulled.
Papa Massata Diack of Senegal, and Russian officials Valentin
Balakhnichev and Alexei Melnikov made the appeals after they
were handed lifetime bans for bribery and extortion for
covering up a Russian doping case. Diack, a former marketing
consultant for the governing body, is the son of ex-IAAF
President Lamine Diack and is the subject of an Interpol notice
seeking his arrest for questioning by investigative agencies in
France. Melnikov was head coach of Russian distance runners
and race walkers and Balakhnichev was the long-time president
of the Russian athletics federation and a former IAAF treasurer.

3. The three were found guilty of conspiring to extort hundreds of
thousands of dollars from Liliya Shobukhova, the Russian marathoner,
so she can avoid a doping ban before the 2012 London Olympics. The
ban of 38 months imposed on Liliya ban from track and field was
reduced by seven months after the Russian athlete turned
whistleblower for the World Anti-Doping Agency. The Russian long-
distance runner, who held a former world indoor record in the 3000 m
is the current European record holder in the 3000 m and 5000 m,
competed in marathon races and served a doping ban until 23 August
2015.
On January 7, the ethics panel of IAAF published its findings and
Diack, Balakhnichev, and Melnikov all deny wrongdoing. The IAAF
panel had remarked all three compounded the vice of what they did
by conspiring to extort what were in substance bribes from
Shobukhova by acts of blackmail and added that they acted
dishonestly and corruptly and did unprecedented damage to the sport
of track and field which, by their actions, they have brought into
serious disrepute.