Olympic champion Edwin Moses argued that the only fair penalty for the Russian track team is to ban it from next year’s Olympics.
Advertisement
“A full investigation should be carried out into the failed testing of Russian athletes from ALL sports”, said the letter, provided to The Associated Press on condition the athlete’s name and country be withheld because of the sensitivity of the subject.
A vote by WADA’s Foundation Board to suspend RUSADA comes today and Pound said “everyone in the world expects that to happen, and it would be astonishing if it didn’t”.
Russia’s track and field stars were last Friday banned by the worldwide Association of Athletics Federations from competing and the country’s anti-doping operations are likely to also be suspended later on Wednesday at a World Anti-Doping Agency meeting in Colorado.
Earlier, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told Russian media the panel would also include law enforcement representatives.
Meanwhile it is being reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation that many athletes had “suspicious doping profiles” at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
New Zealander David Howman, right, the director general of the…
“If I am clean athlete the only thing I need to be concerned with is that another clean athlete is next to me on the platform”, Pound said. “We fully expect implementation of all recommendations”, Kolobkov said.
But later, he said he wanted to make it “absolutely clear that he had not declined to extend the mandate” of the commission to look at sports beyond track.
Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, called the lack of action “a gut kick to clean athletes”.
“WADA 2 put strong strategy in place & testing will be done @ cost of country declared non-compliant”.
“My instinct on this issue, while we never say never, is about engagement, not isolation”, Coe told Reuters on Sunday.
“This means that before any talk of Russian Federation becoming compliant, there must be an investigation of every sport”, Moses said. “We need to state clearly that Russia’s athletics team not go to Rio”.
WADA’s ruling on Wednesday piles more pressure on Russian Federation to fix its system.
In a sign the crisis has the potential to touch other countries, the Wada board, meeting in Colorado Springs, also announced Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia and Ukraine have been found to be non-compliant and can no longer conduct their own anti-doping programmes.
Advertisement
Russia, Argentina, Ukraine, Bolivia, Andorra and Israel have been declared non-compliant.
