Shubenkov said: “I will get drunk”.
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The IOC executive held emergency telephone talks after a World Anti-Doping Agency-commissioned report said there had been state-sanctioned doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and other major events. In a statement yesterday. the IOC said that they will “explore the legal options with regard to a collective ban of all Russian athletes for the Olympic Games 2016”.
In extending the ban, the IAAF said Russia’s entire drug-testing system had been corrupted and tainted and there was no way to prove which athletes were clean.
Zhukov said his committee did not discuss the McLaren report at its meeting, although he also did not rule out legal action if Russian Federation is hit with a total ban from the games.
The head of Russia’s Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, said on Wednesday Russia had no intention of boycotting the Rio Games to protest against the way a doping scandal was being handled, saying politics had no place in sport.
Mr. Zhukov said that Russia is continuing to make plans under the assumption that the track and field team’s 68 athletes would be able to compete in the Rio games, along with some 319 other Russian national athletes.
By STEPHEN WILSON and EDDIE PELLS AP Sports Writers A letter drafted by US and Canadian anti-doping leaders urging Russia’s removal from the upcoming Olympics is circulating days before the. But this week, a bigger question that affects athletes in all disciplines is being asked by head honchos at the International Olympic Committee (IOC): Should Russia be kicked out of the 2016 Olympic Games period?
The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, retaliating for the US -led boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow that followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
WADA and other anti-doping officials urged the International Olympic Committee to consider the unprecedented step of excluding the entire Russian team from the Rio Games. It is studying the McLaren report, which revealed how positive tests were made to disappear with the connivance of the sports ministry, intelligence service and other officials, and how urine samples were swapped and tampered with at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.
Athletics, which includes track and field competitions, saw 244 violations, the highest number of any of the summer sports. The FISA EC carefully noted that the International Olympic Committee asks all IFs for a full inquiry and, in case of implication in infringements of the World Anti-Doping Code, sanctions against Russian National Federations.
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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. “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”.
