MOSCOW — The former executive director of Russia’s antidoping agency has died, two months after resigning amid a scandal that triggered the suspension of the country’s track and field program.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday, a spokeswoman for the agency, Nataliya Koshel, confirmed that the former director, Nikita Kamaev, died on Sunday. He was 52.
“The preliminary cause of death was a massive heart attack,” the agency, known by the acronym Rusada, said in a statement on its English-language website.
Kamaev is the second former senior Rusada official to die this month.