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Russian doping was so out of control athletes could have died according to athletics world governing body. Documents uncovered by the Associated Press this week suggest doping was rampant in Russia six years before the country was banned from international competition. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) warned Russia in 2009 that performance enhancing drugs being prescribed to the country's athletes were "putting their health and even their own lives in very serious danger".