Hello, I'm Ashishama and in today's Business Daily, we're looking at the impact the conflict in Ukraine is having on the finances of the world of sport.

We'll hear from athletes who think their Russian counterparts shouldn't be allowed to compete.

I believe Russia should be blocked from any participant in any sport because what they are doing is too much.

We'll also hear from the man who runs an athlete-led movement,

which aims to change how world sport is run.

The athletes from Belarus and Russia are actually being used as propaganda machines

by Vladimir Putin and Lukashenko.

So by removing them from competitions, we are

actually helping and supporting them. This is Business Daily from the BBC.

Julius Stepanava, Russian champion world-class athlete turned whistleblower.

Branded a traitor in her motherland, she and her husband, helped to expose cheating in Russia on a colossal scale.

They are the pride and joy of Russian sport.

But track and field stars like Polvolta, Yelena Issybaewa won't be going for gold at next month's Rio Olympics.

That's due to a landmark legal judgment which sided with Athletics' world governing body, the IAAF,

against 68 Russians challenging a ruling which bars them from Brazil.

Russia has a long and troubled relationship with international sport.

From doping to the Olympics to the World Cup, it's been a long story of pushing very close to the

rules and sometimes breaking them. There's no soul-searching or public remorse over the doping

violations. Instead, there's this defiance, contempt even for the punishment.

Russian officials have acknowledged that there was a problem with doping in sport, but they've

never accepted that it was widespread and officially sanctioned. And now, the sporting world has

given Russia the cold shoulder. In an act of unity, last seen over 60 years ago when sporting sanctions were imposed

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