That led to World Anti-Doping Agency WADA recommending that the International Olympics Committee and International Paralympic Committee consider banning all athletes entered by the Russian Olympic Committee for next month’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. You have now viewed your allowance of free articles.
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The results of this report, filed by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, will be discussed by the IOC (International Olympics Committee) on Tuesday. The IOC will take that ruling into account before making its own decision.
Mr Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said: “Russia is preparing for the Olympics, the Russian team is preparing for the Olympics”.
If the court upholds the IAAF’s exclusion of the track athletes, however, that would keep the possibility of a total ban in play.
“We are waiting for the CAS decision”.
Regardless of how the various doping-related cases turn out, Zhukov said a Russian Olympic boycott was out of the question.
“And I think this is an association that has been caught cheating so many times that something like this needs to happen for them to take a real look at what they’re doing, and to clean up their sport”.
The IOC’s eventual decision will take into consideration a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport due on Thursday, the World Anti-Doping Code and the Olympic Charter.
In light of the report, IOC president Thomas Bach said: “The findings of the report show a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games”.
With the Rio Olympics less than three weeks away, the International Olympic Committee on Monday promised “the toughest sanctions available” after a report found Moscow had concealed hundreds of positive doping tests in many sports ahead of the Sochi winter Games.
The World Anti-Doping Agency tasked McLaren with investigating the allegations and he uncovered a wider system of doping of Russian athletes and subversion of anti-doping rules that reached the highest levels of Russian sport. “This means that the eligibility of each Russian athlete will have to be decided by his or her International Federation (IF) based on an individual analysis of his or her international anti-doping record”.
Russian track and field athletes have already been banned from representing their country in Brazil and the (ROC) does not believe a blanket would be the right course of action.
Russian Federation still has five crews qualified for this summer’s Olympics and two for the Paralympics.
World Rowing also said it “is undertaking a complete review of testing of Russian rowers since 2011” and has asked WADA for any evidence related to doping by Russian rowers. He said last week that, if summer sports were implicated in the McLaren report, the federations would have to decide on the eligibility of Russians “on an individual basis”.
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This would ease those concerned by the potential unfairness of a collective punishment, appease a nation that hosts more major sports events than any other and probably allow those Russians that get through the vetting process to compete in Russian colours, and not as “neutral athletes” under an Olympic banner.
