However, Mutko and his deputy Yury Nagornykh were among those named in the report.
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He’s one of several Canadian athletes reacting to the independent report, commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and released today in Toronto.
Eleven Russian footballers also benefited from a cover-up after failing a doping test, the report said.
Volleyball officials are among those who don’t want to see all Russians kicked out of the Olympics. He noted that in volleyball, much of the testing is done outside of Russian Federation, where labs have been implicated in the scandal. Well, it was more like 8,000, McLaren now says.
There will be mounting pressure for that to be extended even though Bach and some global federations have called for a way for Russian athletes proved to be clean to compete in Rio.
But the president of the FIVB Athletes’ Commission feels otherwise.
The report says Russia’s security service broke into supposedly tamper-proof urine sample bottles to help doping cheats win medals at the Sochi Olympics.
“The Sochi laboratory operated a unique sample-swapping methodology to enable doped Russian athletes to compete at the Winter Olympic Games”, he added. Rodchenkov fled Russian Federation and detailed the scam for The New York Times in May.
“The Ministry of Sport directed, controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athletes’ analytical results or sample swapping”, said the report.
WADA called for a complete ban of Russian athletes in Rio and also wants Russian government officials to be denied access to global competitions, including the upcoming Olympics. McLaren says it’s up to other sports bodies to determine the next steps.
The IOC expects to publish a statement on Tuesday summing up its board’s judgment.
“In the face of such evidence of state-sponsored subversion of anti-doping processes, WADA insists upon imposition of the most serious consequences to protect clean athletes from the scourge of doping in sport”, said WADA President Craig Reedie, who is also an International Olympic Committee member.
The leader of the U.S. Olympic Committee says the McLaren Report confirms that the current anti-doping system is broken.
It was already alleged that the Russian sports ministry, and state-funded anti-doping agency and lab were in on the scam.
Scott Blackmun said the USOC looks forward to working with the IOC, WADA and the rest of the Olympics family to address all the flaws.
He was relying on the IOC and worldwide sports federations to figure out appropriate sanctions.
But he also says the report represents an opportunity to expose and clean up doping culture in sport.
Travis Tygart, the CEO of USADA, urged the worldwide community to come together to ensure that what he called an unprecedented level of criminality never threatens sports again.
A blanket ban of Russian teams across all 28 Summer Games sports – even in those few not tarnished by Monday’s report – has to be an option.
“The Moscow laboratory was effectively caught up in the jaws of a vice”, the report said.
Asked bout Mutko’s situation, Federation Internationale de Football Association said “the Ethics Committee is an independent body of Federation Internationale de Football Association and only it can decide what actions to take in respect to this issue”.
It said that Moscow had concealed hundreds of positive doping cases from a variety of sports, including soccer, in the run-up to the games. It included the 2013 track world championships in Moscow and was in place as recently as the 2015 swimming world championships in Kazan – when everyone in Russian sports knew they were under the doping microscope.
IOC President Thomas Bach called the revelations a “shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games” and said the IOC wouldn’t hesitate to apply the toughest sanctions available against those accused of cheating.
The International Olympic Committee says that its executive board will hold a telephone conference Tuesday to consider possible sanctions that would include the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
A scathing report outlining a state-sanctioned doping system in Russian Federation prompted immediate calls for the nation’s entire team to be sidelined from the Summer Games, raising the possibility that the Olympics could go on without a sports superpower for the first time since the 1980s.
It could mean Olympic brinkmanship just days before the opening ceremony. Several organizations, including the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, have called for a complete ban of the Russian team.
If Russia’s Olympic committee is banned from entering any teams for Rio, it would likely be allowed to appeal that decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. And for every anti-doping agency and athlete group calling for a full ban, there’s seemingly another sports organization or leader urging restraint.
Richard McLaren of Western University unveiled the report’s findings Monday morning in Toronto. Meanwhile, Russia’s “disappearing positive methodology” began in 2011, shortly after Russia’s disappointing performance at the Vancouver Olympics.
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McLaren said allegations made by Moscow’s former anti-doping lab director about sample switching at the Sochi Olympics went much as described in a New York Times story in May. That program involved dark-of-night bottle tampering in order to switch dirty samples with clean ones; it prevented Russian athletes, including more than a dozen medal winners, from testing positive.
