A Russian official criticized the Internatonal Paralympic Committee (IPC)’s decision to ban all Russia’s athletes from the upcoming Rio Paralympic Games, even suggesting that exclusion from the Paralympics would rob athletes of “a reason for living”.
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Russian Federation announced that it would appeal against the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. This is all Mr.
In the meantime, he said the Russian Paralympic team will continue preparing for the games.
On July 22 IPC opened a case against RPC following a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission, chaired by Canadian law professor, Richard McLaren.
Addressing Russia’s Olympic team before they travelled to Rio last week, Putin said Russian sport had fallen foul of a politically motivated plot and the principal of collective responsibility flew in the face of common sense and legality.
The IPC then asked its own anti-doping people and those at the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) what measures it can take against the individual athletes; that is yet to unfold.
“I believe the Russian government has catastrophically failed its para-athletes”.
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”. 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.
The result, according to the McLaren Report, could be seen at the Sochi Paralympics, in which Russian Federation won 30 of 72 available gold medals.
Russia narrowly escaped a blanket ban from Rio last month when the IOC left it up to worldwide sports federations to determine which Russians are eligible to compete while granting itself a final say on the Russian Olympic roster. “We hope that the appeal will be satisfied”, Lukin said.
But he stressed it would not have been “justice” to ban all Russian athletes – clean ones as well as those who used drugs.
“This means that the team, which numbers about 270 athletes, is banned to do what it has been doing in the past several years, its training practice”.
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Several national anti-doping bodies (NADOs), including Germany’s, had wanted a blanket ban on Russian Federation.
