moscow high jumper danil lysenko suspended for antidoping violations in a case that rattled russian sport has admitted guilt for his offences but said he blames the athletics federation for a plan to forge documents to try to evade punishmentlysenko silver medallist at the 2017 world athletics championships was provisionally suspended in 2018 after recording three whereabouts failures within a 12month period once missing a doping test and twice failing to provide his whereabouts to antidoping authoritiesthe aftermath plunged russias athletics federation suspended since 2015 for mass doping across the sport into more turmoil after senior federation officials became embroiled in a scheme to forge medical documents and provide false explanations to justify lysenkos violationsof course i could have said no but i didnt lysenko whose suspension ends in august next year told reuters i listened to the bosses and decided to do as they saidthe 24yearold said he had been negligent on reporting his whereabouts and had in no way attempted to conceal the use of banned substances he also said he regretted going along with what he referred to as the federations plan to help himwhen asked to comment on lysenkos claim it was the federations idea to forge the documents dmitry shlyakhtin the federations president at the time told reuters let that remain on his conscience for the rest of his life until the grave he did comment furthershlyakhtin received a fouryear suspension over the casethe conspiracy unravelled when the monacobased athletics integrity unit aiu which oversees integrity issues in the sport questioned the information provided by lysenkothe moscow clinic that allegedly treated lysenko for suspected appendicitis the original reason provided for not entering his whereabouts in an online system that allows doping control officers to locate athletes did not exist the timeline of a car accident to justify another violation did not stand up to scrutinylysenko did not initially tell investigators the truth because he feared for his safety if he implicated senior federation officials he later assisted investigators in bringing charges against some officials which led to his suspension being shortened by two yearsfive federation officials including shlyakhtin were suspended over the caselysenkos coach evgeny zagorulko was also provisionally suspended his lawyers submitted a request to the lausannebased court of arbitration for sport cas to have his suspension revised in light of his assistance to investigators zagurolko died in april before the court could make a rulingin november 2019 the case prompted world athletics the sports international governing body to stop authorising russians to compete internationally as neutral athletesit later relaunched that process but fined the federation 10 million and limited the number of russians eligible to compete in athletics at the tokyo olympics to 10im certainly aware that innocent athletes have suffered because of this situation said lysenko the 2018 world indoor champion im very sorrythe whole truthat an athletics facility in moscow last month lysenko effortlessly cleared 215 metres an impressive jump for someone who drives a truck for a