The International Paralympic Committee’s decision Friday to start suspension proceedings against Russian Federation came two days before IOC leaders decide whether to exclude the country’s entire team from the Olympics next month in Brazil.
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The decision, announced after a three-hour meeting via teleconference of the International Olympic Committee’s executive board, came just 12 days before the August 5 opening of the games. However, once he gets there, there’s only 24 minutes that likely separate Burroughs and his dream of a second Olympic gold medal.
Foad then added the hashtags #gotnobollocks and #prayforcleansport At its second emergency meeting in a week, the IOC’s executive board today opted against a collective sanction and asked all global sports federations affected by Russia’s cheating to make their own judgements on eligibility against a set of strict criteria.
The IOC has said it would seek a balance between “collective punishment” and “individual justice”.
Russia’s track and field athletes have already been banned by the IAAF, the sport’s governing body, a decision that was upheld Thursday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and was accepted by the International Olympic Committee again on Sunday.
An independent report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Russia’s sports ministry directed a vast doping program with support from the state intelligence agency that saw thousands of tainted urine samples destroyed or swapped for clean ones.
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Russian Federation faces a possible ban from the Paralympic Games.
Since then a series of worldwide sports federations, anti-doping agencies and athletes have called for a blanket ban of all sports at Rio, though some have said they are against punishing innocent athletes.
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That’s never been done before due to doping. And Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation is a sports powerhouse, a huge country seeking to reaffirm its status on the world stage, and a major player in the Olympic movement.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin had warned that the affair could split the Olympic movement, bringing echoes of the 1980s when the United States led a political boycott of the Moscow Games of 1980 and the Soviet Union led an Eastern Bloc boycott of the Los Angeles Games four years later.
The IOC set extra criteria for Russian athletes when ruling out a complete ban.
Bach and other Olympic officials have repeatedly cited the difference between collective and individual punishment. Any of those implicated should not be allowed into the games, it said.
“You can’t have zero tolerance, but say, of course it’s Russia”, Pound told The Associated Press. The IOC said it would propose measures for more transparency and independence.
Cockroft said: “It is a tough decision and I wouldn’t want to make that decision”.
“For me, if you do take the easy way out you’re quite weak up here”.
Absence of a positive national anti-doping test isn’t sufficient to compete, the International Olympic Committee said Sunday.
Bach is not expected to meet with reporters after the meeting. Stepanova had previously hoped to compete in the games under a neutral flag. Britain will have around 260 athletes in 19 sports.
Athletes who have previously served doping bans will not be eligible, while worldwide federations will also analyze an athlete’s testing history.
But the summer federations may not have all the information they need from the McLaren report to act. And the federations all have different rules.
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The IPC said that in light of this week’s McLaren report, it expected to announce a decision on whether or not it will suspend Russian Federation in the week commencing August 1.
