from his post . Nikita Kamaev suffered a " massive heart attack , " according to a statement on the organization 's official website The 52-year - old stepped down in December following a doping scandal that saw Russia banned from international athletics
The chairman of Hillary Clinton ’s presidential campaign said that outgoing Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had become a “ distraction ” and made the right move in resigningpersonnel.endposition.quitretireher post . “ I think she had become a distraction and did the right thing by deciding to resign , ” campaign chairman John Podesta told reporters Monday outside a Pennsylvania delegation breakfast in center city Philadelphia . Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday that she would leave her post after this week ’s convention amid intensifying controversy over whether the committee she runs had improperly tried to undermine the candidacy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders .