The Paralympic Games open on September 7.
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Following the report, WADA recommended the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and all international sports federations to ban Russian athletes from all international sports competitions, including Rio 2016.
A statement from the IPC read: “The IPC governing board on Friday (July 22) ratified a decision to open suspension proceedings against NPC Russia”. He added that after considering new evidence this week, “the IPC believes that the current environment in Russian sport – which stems from the highest levels – is such that NPC Russia appears unable to fulfill its IPC membership obligations in full”.
“The IPC considers this vital to ensuring athletes are able to compete on a level playing field”.
The Russians have one of the top Paralympic teams. RFYS aims to create a unified structure of school and college competitions across sports to promote participation of young athletes.
IPC president Sir Philip Craven thanked McLaren for his cooperation. “McLaren’s findings are of serious concern for everyone committed to clean and honest sport”.
“The additional information that we have been provided with by Richard McLaren includes the names of the Paralympic athletes who have been associated with the 35 “disappearing positive samples” from the Moscow laboratory which have been highlighted in the report”.
“The scale, co-ordination and leadership of a doping system like this is arguably the most heinous crime possible against the Olympic movement”, said the former skeleton racer.
Pengilly, a member of the IOC’s Athletes’ Commission and one of four British IOC members, conceded: “I say reluctantly because there are very probably clean Russian athletes, and they will suffer, and this is nothing short of bad”.
“I am deeply anxious by the fact there also were Russian citizens among officials and athletes who used doping and falsification for the sake of “victory at any price”.
Reanalysis of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics in Beijing and London exposed a further 45 positive tests, the International Olympic Committee announced on Friday.
Our correspondent reports that the establishment of new AIIMS in Gaurakhpur will serve the dual goal of providing super-specialty health care to the population while creating a large pool of doctors and health workers that can be available for primary and secondary level facilities being created under National Health Mission.
The IOC said 23 of the 30 positive tests taken from the Beijing samples involved medallists.
While the Beijing results are provisional findings, pending the analysis of the b-sample, the 15 tests from London 2012 are positives and from two sports and nine countries.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said: “The new reanalysis once again shows the commitment of the International Olympic Committee in the fight against doping”. The news comes a day after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the Rio Olympic ban on Russia’s track and field teams in connection to a multiyear, systematic doping program known by the government. If it does so, the Russian para athletes would presumably be barred from the upcoming competition in Rio.
A decision by its executive board could come on Sunday.
Of the 53 athletes caught in the first wave of IOC retests from 2008 and 2012, 22 athletes were from Russian Federation, according to the nation’s Olympic Committee.
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“For me the principle of collective punishment is unacceptable”, wrote 85-year-old Mr Gorbachev, asking Bach to make a “just decision”.
