Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (C) speaks during an awarding ceremony for Russian athletes, winners of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, on February 24, 2014.
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“The Kenyan authorities had been given a series of deadlines to introduce a parliamentary bill, policy and rules for the ADAK; however, following a May 2 meeting, WADA’s independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) confirmed that the outstanding issues had still not been addressed and so made the recommendation of non-compliance to the Board”.
WADA made a similar ruling with Russia’s anti-doping agency in November.
Mr Rodchenkov also said he believed the Russian security services had helped to cover up doping.
But even as WADA held its board meeting in Montreal, a fresh round of revelations about drugs at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi erupted in the New York Times. Once we know that, then we will investigate.
“This is as bad as we’ve seen assuming what Rodchenkov says is true, and he does have the knowledge of what was going on”, former WADA president Dick Pound, who headed the independent commission previous year, told Reuters.
“I believe these guys, they are outstanding athletes, the charges are nonsense”, Mutko, who has previously said doping checks at Sochi were under the control of worldwide experts, was quoted as saying.
“I would say that these statements seem completely vociferous and aren’t based on any sort of information deserving trust and are not backed by any sort of argumentation”, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The allegations are only the latest against Russian Federation and only further raise questions about anti-doping and WADA’s response to whistleblowers.
The newspaper reported Rodchenkov’s allegations of systemic doping of Russian athletes, which he believed to be facilitated with the help of the country’s internal intelligence agency and through the replacement of urine samples.
The Australian Olympic team boss does not want the Russian track and field team to compete at Rio but speculated that doping may be spread across the country’s other sports.
“The news is not good for us athletes, who have been working extra hard at training to prepare for the Olympic Games”, Yego said. The transactions were marked “Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Bid”.
Earlier, two Russian Olympic gold medallists denied doping after they were named in the New York Times article.
The new law could result in jail sentences of up to a year and fines for those who dope, but WADA are still not satisfied.
The former Moscow lab director who revealed Russia’s plans to tamper with urine samples to guarantee clean drug tests at the Sochi Olympics is calling on Olympic officials to test the stored samples with his assistance.
Kenyan officials on Friday scrambled to work out what had gone wrong as the country faces a possible Olympics ban after being ruled non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Russia’s track and field athletes are now the subject of a suspension which places their participation in the Rio Olympics in doubt.
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Kenya Sports Minister Hassan Wario said that WADA had pointed out which parts of the law needed changing.
