Burson-Marsteller Europe is advising Russian Federation as the country faces allegations of state-sponsored doping and potential bans of its athletes from the upcoming Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro.
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The International Olympic Committee said this week that Russian athletes could be banned from the upcoming Games.
“We are planning to send requests for information to the competent authorities of the United States and a number of other countries, within the framework of global legal cooperation, to exchange information about the alleged use of doping”.
McLaren, also a longstanding member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport will work independently, but will be “supported by the multi-disciplinary team that has been established”, a statement explained.
World Anti-Doping Agency president Sir Craig Reedie has tapped Richard McLaren as an independent investigator on the team that will look into the allegations, which were published by the New York Times and 60 Minutes.
The IOC held a special meeting where they announced additional measures to protect clean athletes competing in the Olympic Games later this year by retesting a sizeable amount of samples from athletes that took part in previous Olympic Games.
The IOC has called the accusations against the Sochi laboratory “worrying”.
The investigation into Russian athletics took over a year from beginning to end, with it very unlikely any conclusions will be published before the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Reedie wrote to Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko two weeks after a German WADA official was threatened with deportation by Russia’s FSB intelligence service for trying to test a Paralympic athlete in the closed city of Tryokhgorny, according to a report in the Times of London.
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The Kenyan, Australian and British Olympic committees have said they have not been told of failed tests by their competitors.
