WADA issued a seven-point list of requests after it published a report which confirmed claims of state-backed Russian cheating at the Sochi Olympics and beyond.
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McLaren said that the report’s key findings proves have been proven “beyond reasonable doubt” and insisted he had “unwavering confidence” in the report.
The report says Russia’s doping programme started in late 2011, and was in place for the London Olympics in 2012 and the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
An independent investigation, ordered by the World Anti-Doping Agency and conducted by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, found a far-reaching conspiracy to subvert drug-testing, extending from sports officials to the Russian security service.
“We would like to highlight our belief that WADA must allow Professor McLaren and his team to continue their investigation, that Russia should be banned from the Rio Olympics, Paralympics, and other global events, and that worldwide federations must enact sanctions so as to protect clean sport”.
The recommendation followed closely after Monday’s release of a 103-page agency report that detailed further evidence of systemic doping among the country’s athletes, coaches and officials.
Pound said prohibiting Russia from taking part in the Rio games wouldn’t hurt the competition, noting the absence of Russian athletes during the Eastern Bloc boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Russia’s Olympic chief on Monday attacked the United States and Canada’s anti-doping agencies for trying to pressure the International Olympic Committee into imposing a full ban on Russian Federation from the Rio Olympics. Swimming’s world body FINA said: “FINA is also concerned that there has been a drive behind the scenes.to get a global coalition.to support the call for the total ban on Russian Federation”.
The report found evidence of doping in 30 sports, led by track and field and weightlifting.
In May, the New York Times and 60 Minutes first reported on the doping scheme after scoring interviews with Grigory Rodchenkov, former head of Russia’s anti-doping lab in Moscow, and Vitaly Stepanov, who once worked with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says officials named directly responsible in the doping report presented will be suspended.
Some of the world’s best athletes will be participating in the Olympics in Rio this summer.
“All athletes have a right to clean sport and a right to compete clean”.
Efforts to ban Russia from the Rio Olympics inappropriate – PutinBy Swastika Singh Tuesday 19/07/2016A Gold medalist Russian track team from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Bach said the IOC “will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organization implicated” in the McLaren report, which he called “a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games”.
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“The surprise result of the Sochi investigation was the revelation of the extent of State oversight and directed control of the Moscow laboratory in processing, and covering up urine samples of Russian athletes from virtually all sports before and after the Sochi Games”, the report said.
