<span style="color: #222222;">The President of the Russian track and field federation resigned today, two days after he was accused of obstructing an anti-doping investigation involving fake medical documents.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Dmitry Shlyakhtin told an emergency federation conference in Moscow that he was stepping down. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was already provisionally suspended pending a full hearing on the charges from the Athletics Integrity Unit. Runner-turned-businesswoman Yulia Tarasenko has been appointed acting President.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Russia was hit by a double blow Friday as the World Anti-Doping Agency said a key panel had recommended the country be declared non-compliant for allegedly tampering with lab data in a separate case. That could lead to Russia being banned from the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Russia's track team was reduced to a single athlete in 2016 amid earlier doping revelations.</span><br />''