The World Anti-Doping Agency, along with many national anti-doping bodies and athletes groups, have called on the IOC to impose a total ban on Russian Federation following fresh allegations of state-orchestrated cheating across dozens of Olympic sports. “Sports should be clean and the health of athletes should be well protected”, he said.
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The IPC’s strong condemnation of Russia’s years of doping deception, including the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, pulls back on the support it gave the country last month.
Doping has been associated with competitive worldwide games from inception (“Russian athletes can’t go to Rio”, July 22).
The agencies also called for the establishment of a “task force” to “apply a uniform set of criteria to determine whether individual Russian athletes should be permitted to participate in the Rio Olympic Games under a neutral flag”.
Russia’s Paralympic team became a possible target for sanctions on Friday.
After fully evaluating Richard McLaren’s “Independent Person Report”, together with additional data provided to the IPC by the report’s author, the IPC Governing Board on Friday (22 July) ratified a decision to open suspension proceedings against NPC Russia in light of its apparent inability to fulfil its IPC membership responsibilities and obligations.
The IPC have now confirmed that they have received the names of the athletes associated with the disappearing samples.
The International Paralympic Committee announced on July 22 that it opened suspension proceedings against Russian Federation in light of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report and will announce a decision during the week starting August 1.
THREE-TIME Olympian Colin Campbell says Russia’s impending ban from the 2016 Olympic Games is long overdue. If it does so, the Russian para athletes would presumably be barred from the upcoming competition in Rio.
“The funniest thing is that right now I am on my way to Moscow to receive my Russian team sports kit”, Litvinov said on Thursday.
The IOC retested 524 samples from the Beijing’s 2008 games and London’s 2012 games in the latest reexaminations.
Russian Federation could face a blanket ban after a damning report compiled by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren claimed it operated a state-sponsored doping programme from 2011 to 2015.
Russian Paralympic team in trouble, too: Russians hoping to compete in this summer’s Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, got some bad news when officials moved to ban the country from the Games amid Russia’s doping crisis.
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. In this pursuit, the committee has emphasized targeted pretests of athletes in identified sports and countries.
Putin repeated the firm position of the Russian government and himself against doping in sports.
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