Commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the report confirms the core accusations of Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia’s laboratory responsible for certifying that athletes have not used banned substances.
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The shocking findings of the McLaren report, released this week, said urine samples of Russian competitors were manipulated across the “vast majority” of summer and winter Olympic sports from late 2011 to August 2015.
Russia’s track and field athletes are already banned from competing at next month’s Olympics by the world governing International Association of Athletics’ Federations (IAAF) over widespread doping in the sport.
Zhukov insisted that Russian sportsmen were still “capable of competing for medals” at the event in Rio and said they were training in Russia, Portugal and Brazil.
The IOC, which said it needed to study all “legal options”, has now signalled it will take every day possible for one of the most important decisions in Olympic history.
Pells says even back then, she and others on the track were sick and exhausted of being beaten by what she calls “dirty” athletes, and she says it’s high-time a strong message is sent.
Two high-profile sports lawyers presented each side California-based Howard Jacobs for the Russians, British attorney Jonathan Taylor for the IAAF.
UFC heavyweight signee Bilyal Makhov spoke out against the the World Anti-Doping Agency’s suggested ban on Russia’s participation in the Olympics.
The IOC said in a statement Tuesday it was “exploring its legal options with regard to a collective ban on all Russian athletes versus the right to individual justice”.
World rowing’s bosses also asked WADA to hand over all of McLaren’s evidence that relates to rowing and hold a meeting with all the affected federations once they too had been given the relevant evidence.
That ban followed similar revelations of rampant doping with support from Moscow. The Russian track team appealed, and the Court of Arbitration is scheduled to rule tomorrow.
He also ordered suspension of all the officials mentioned in the report until a full investigation was completed. “Blanket bans have never been and will never be just”.
Weightlifting is also in the grip of a doping crisis after many medalists from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics failed retests of their samples.
A member of the Commission of the International Cycling Association on road races, Alexander Gusyatnikov, speaking with a correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza, said that the International Olympic Committee would rather punish Russian Federation following the results of the WADA report, but not the removal from the Olympic Games in Rio.
But some senior officials have expressed doubts whether the International Olympic Committee wants to expel Russian Federation.
The IOC also started disciplinary action against Russian sports ministry officials and others implicated in McLaren’s report, and said they would be denied accreditation for the Rio Games.
The McLaren report says the Russian government oversaw and directed the “entirety” of the falsification of test results, according to The Washington Post.
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“Of course, interaction and contact with the International Olympic Committee will be continued”, Peskov said.
