A Russian diplomat has described the decision to ban their Paralympics team from the Rio Games next month as “filthy and inhumane”.
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Russia has chose to appeal the decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to ban Russian athletes from the Rio Paralympic Games.
Russian Federation immediately said it would appeal and condemned the move as violating the human rights of its athletes. “It shows a blatant disregard for the health and wellbeing of athletes and, quite simply, has no place in Paralympic sport”, said Craven.
BBC reported that from 2011 to 2015, the Russian government is replacing their athletes’ urine samples to pass.
“Their win at all costs attitude is disgusting to me”.
“The Russian Paralympic Committee are unable to ensure compliance with and enforcement of the IPC anti-doping code and the world anti-doping code within their own national jurisdiction and they cannot fulfil its fundamental obligation as an IPC member”. However, the International Olympic Committee, whose president Thomas Bach is close to Putin, declined to make an outright ban on Russian athletes. After escaping a blanket ban from the Olympics, Russia was kicked out of the upcoming Paralympics on Sunday as the ultimate punishment for the state running a doping operation that polluted sports by prioritizing “medals over morals”. “If we slacken off on that, we are finished, and we’re not going to”.
“Russia has some top-quality athletes across all sports and we look forward to the day when we can welcome the Russian Paralympic Committee back as a member, safe in the knowledge that it is fulfilling all its obligations in order to ensure a level playing field for all”.
“It is prejudice and politicization”.
“This is an unprecedented decision [the ban]”, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told reporters. The decision comes after considerable debate over whether or not the International Olympic Committee was justified in allowing the country a pass to Rio despite evidence and claims to suggest that their athletes may have been subject to state-sponsored doping.
“This decision is absurd”. The findings have rocked Russian sport and tarnished the legacy of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, which were President Vladimir Putin’s showcase. “This means an actual ban on our athletes to compete at the Paralympics”, Lukin said. For this reason, they turned it over to the Federation.
Also World Archery has launched a critique of the IPC decision, which they find to go against the principles of inclusion and fair play.
Working with McLaren’s team, the IPC found 45 samples from 44 athletes that were flagged by Russian authorities to be manipulated by the Moscow doping lab.
Despite the IPC’s reasoning for its Russian ban decision, ANOC said it had been “widely acknowledged” that the McLaren report “needs further research before comprehensive conclusions can be drawn”. “It is a betrayal of the very highest human rights standards which are the foundation of the modern world”.
The Paralympic Games, conducted for athletes with a range of physical disabilities, are expected to attract more than 4,300 entrants from 160 countries to compete in 22 sports. “We certainly have athletes – as every country would – that would want to be at the Paralympic games, it’s a matter of whether it can actually happen”.
“It impairs clean impaired athletes for a second time when compared to their Olympic counterparts, for political reasons rather than sporting”, the organisation said.
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“The facts really do hurt”, International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven said. “The anti-doping system in Russian Federation is broken”, he said.
