Russia’s exclusion from next month’s Paralympic Games in Rio is a different situation from the IOC’s decision to allow some Russian competitors to take part at the Olympics, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Monday.
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The entire Russian team has been banned from competing in the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in September as a punishment for the country’s failure to comply with anti-doping regulations. “Their thirst for glory at all costs has severely damaged the integrity and image of all sport”.
Many of Russia’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes were tested at the same Moscow lab that’s been implicated in the doping scandal. “ITTF will carry out a comprehensive investigation”, the press service added.
“I believe the Russian government has catastrophically failed its Para athletes”. A week before the 2012 Paralympic Games, two Russians and a Georgian tested positive for human growth hormone and received a two-year ban.
The International Paralympics Committee President Sir Philip Craven said, “Russia’s anti-doping system is completely broken”.
In 2014, at the Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia brought home 37 percent of the medals awarded.
“It’s an unprecedented decision”, Mutko told Interfax news agency.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was accused of fudging the issue of Russia’s state-sponsored systematic doping by not unilaterally banning the country from the Olympics. Addressing Russia’s Olympic team before they travelled to Rio last week, Putin said Russian sport had fallen foul of a politically motivated plot formented by foreign rivals. Following its suspension, Russian Federation has until August 28 to appeal the IPC decision.
Later, IPC chief Philip Craven said that another ten Russian parathletes were suspected of violating anti-doping rules. This means an actual ban on our athletes to compete at the Paralympics. Nagornykh decided which athletes “would benefit from a cover-up and who would not be protected”, McLaren wrote.
“It shows a blatant disregard for the health and well being of athletes and quite simply has no place in Paralympic sport”.
The decision to ban Russian athletes from next month’s Rio Paralympic Games over doping allegations was a grave abuse of human rights, according to the head of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC). “Our team is one of the best in the world and its results are proof”.
“They are retesting everyone”, the Russian minister said.
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The IPC says they expect to find even more evidence of doping beyond what the McLaren report was able to uncover.
