The head of Athletics Australia called Tuesday for Russia's athletics federation to be banned from the 2016 Olympics after a damning doping report, according to dpa. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has found evidence of systemic government-backed cheating by Russian athletes and concluded the Russian laboratory that did drug tests totally lacked credibility. Athletics Australia chief executive Phil Jones said there was not enough time before the 2016 Rio Games for Russia to prove it was clean and Russian athletic competitors should be banned. "The runway clearly is very short to address all the issues that the report calls out," Jones told the broadcaster ABC radio on Tuesday morning after news of the Russian scandal came in overnight. "I think given the time between now and the Rio Olympics, it's very difficult to see that their house is going to be demonstrably in order by the middle of next year." Jones said he wasn't surprised by the report, but clean athletes would feel frustrated by it. "We've got a lot of very good, clean athletes and for them to be tarnished and uncertainty created is really an unfair situation for athletes to be in and they would rightly feel that the sport needs to get on the front foot and sort this out." Australian walker Jared Tallent, who finished second in the London Olympics to the now-banned Russian Sergey Kirdyapkin, said Russia should be banned as Kirdyapkin could be back in time to compete at Rio.