BOSTON (AP) — The IAAF could all-but guarantee American Jenn Suhr a gold medal if it bans the entire Russian track team from the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Suhr is hoping that doesn’t happen.
The defending Olympic champion said Thursday that she wants to compete against the top competition this Summer in Rio — and that means Yelena Isinbayeva, the winner in 2004 and ’08 and the world record-holder.
“If you don’t have your best people in the event, then it’s not really the true event,” Suhr said Thursday.
Her husband and coach, Rick Suhr, went even further.