“We’ll work with them”, he told reporters in Moscow. The findings will go to the WADA foundation board, which will vote on it next Wednesday in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Wada says London 2012 was “sabotaged” by “widespread inaction” against athletes with suspicious doping profiles, while the IAAF – whose former president Lamine Diack is being investigated by French police – was also implicated.
The decision means that athletes from Russian Federation may not compete in worldwide competitions, while Russian Federation will also not be entitled to host the 2016 World Race Walking Cup which had been due to take place in Cheboksary or the 2016 World Junior Championships which had been set for Kazan.
“While it is somewhat promising”, said Travis Tygart, the CEO of USADA, “the real test now is to ensure full justice and accountability for all their actions before being allowed to compete again”.
“The IAAF has an obligation to protect athletes, and this action sends a clear message to clean athletes that protecting them and protecting the sport, with a culture of accountability, is our top priority”, Hightower said.
Vladimir Putin earlier this week said he wanted Russian Federation to conduct an internal investigation into the accusations and that someone needed to take personal responsibility for the problem.
“This is not about politics, this is about protection of clean athletes”, Coe said.
MOSCOW, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Russia is ready to sack senior sports officials and shake up its system of anti-doping checks in order to convince world athletics’ governing body not to bar Russian athletes from the next Olympics, the country’s sports minister said on Friday. “But we discussed and agreed that the whole system has failed the athletes, not just in Russian Federation, but around the world”.
Isinbayeva, who won gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Games, wrote a letter published on the Russian track federation’s website hours before the IAAF was to decide on whether to ban the country from competition. The governing body of track and field IAAF is expected to rule Friday November 13, 2015, on whether to suspend Russian Federation from competition because of alleged doping. Bach met with Russian Olympic Committee head Alexander Zhukov and other officials in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday amid signs that both sides were working toward an agreement that could avoid a ban.
Mutko unveiled concessions he said would be on the table, including sacking the leaders of the national athletics body, creating a new Russian anti-doping agency, and possibly bringing criminal charges against people involved in doping. “Russia is against a boycott”.
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The organisation, which represents scientists of all laboratories accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), added it would do everything to safeguard the fight against performance-enhancing drugs in sport.
