Olympic legend Ed Moses on Wednesday called for Russian track and field athletes to be barred from next year's Olympics as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prepared to rule on the key findings of the scandal.
The ruling means that Russian Federation can not host global events and 'cannot conduct operations until they reinstall quality anti-doping programs and are deemed compliant again'.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is entering the second day of a critical meeting a week after a damning report it commissioned showed widespread doping in Russian athletics.
Saying that it wanted to act "quickly and firmly", WADA immediately revoked its accreditation of the country's main drug-testing lab in Moscow.
In addition, it was reported on November 15 that athletics may not be represented at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "A full investigation should be carried out into the failed testing of Russian athletes from ALL sports", one athlete from the most recent Olympics in Sochi, Russia, wrote in a letter to WADA.
"They have to prove to us in the next six to nine months that there have been drastic changes, actually prove it to us, not just talk words", Coventry said.
Beckie Scott, an Olympic champion cross-country skier for Canada, says she's approached by athletes around the world who wonder why the probe hasn't involved all Russian sports.
The athlete was reacting to the report released last week by a WADA-appointed independent commission that detailed corruption inside Russia's anti-doping program and its track team.
WADA President Craig Reedie insisted however that the agency would move to ensure a "watertight" anti-doping regime in Russian Federation.
And now WADA's foundation board, which met at Colorado Springs in the United States, has said RUSADA should be declared non-compliant immediately, with five other countries also given the same treatment.
"It's an activity that we should think about seriously in future", he said.
Andorra and Israel have been told they did not have enough 2015 rules in place, while Argentina, Bolivia and Ukraine were using non-accredited laboratories.
However, the report's co-author Dick Pound said it would be "child's play" for Russian athletics and Rusada - the country's anti-doping organisation - to meet the conditions in time to compete in Rio.
David Howman, WADA's director general, said the agency's president would consider expanding its investigation if it has concrete evidence of wrongdoing.