The International Paralympic Committee announced a blanket ban on Sunday for all Russian para-athletes over doping concerns.
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“Russia has been a key nation for hosting Paralympic and other sports – they’ve invested a lot of money in it and been great supporters”, he said.
“I commend the IPC governing board for their leadership on this matter, and for clearly demonstrating the independence of the Paralympic movement, and the importance of clean sport to the future integrity and credibility of the Paralympic movement”.
A blanket ban is the sanction his International Olympic Committee counterpart Thomas Bach decided against, describing it as “the nuclear option”, but Craven said he had “no doubts at all” that such drastic action was required to protect sport’s integrity. “The system is Russian Federation is broken, corrupted and entirely compromised”. Their medals over morals mentality disgusts me.
Four years ago, Russian para-athletes finished second in medals in London.
“It shows a blatant disregard for the health and well being of athletes and quite simply has no place in Paralympic sport”.
The McLaren report was a bombshell when it was released.
The International Paralympics Committee decision is part of the same doping scandal that prevented 118 Russian athletes from competing in the Summer Olympics. He was hoping the IPC will follow what International Olympic Committee did, only ban those athletes who really cheated. The British Paralympic Association backed the IPC’s decision.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that IPC had opened suspension proceedings following the McLaren report, and has now confirmed the ban.
“We had to establish the full facts”.
“However, a decision was made on this ground to suspend the RPC’s membership”. Those obligations are crucial to the IPC’s guarantee of fair competition for all.
The Canadian Paralympic Committee responded by supporting the IPC’s decision to ban all Russians from September’s Paralympic Games.
The report last month found there were recurring cases of “disappearing positive samples” at the Moscow lab where athletes and para-athletes were tested.
“It impairs clean athletes. for political reasons rather than sporting, and goes against the Paralympic movement’s principle of inclusion”, World Archery said in a statement. They took home gold and bronze in judo, silver in archery and shooting, and bronze in fencing.
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The entire Russian team was banned from competing in the upcoming Paralympic Games on Sunday as punishment for the country running a doping operation that polluted sports by prioritizing “medals over morals”.
