One, long jumper Darya Klishina, may compete in Rio de Janeiro under a neutral Olympic flag, along with ten athletes who are refugees from war-torn countries.
Advertisement
McLaren’s report also confirmed details of state-supported doping that subverted the testing at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
McLaren, who produced a report for the World Anti-Doping Agency, said there was a “state-dictated failsafe system” of drug cheating.
The IOC also ordered a disciplinary commission to look into the sports ministry’s role in the drug cheating that included Russia’s secret service swapping dirty urine samples for clean ones through a hole in a wall at the Sochi Olympics.
Athletics investigation paved way: An independent commission investigated Russian Federation in 2015, announcing in November that it had found extensive doping in track and field.
Senior sports and political leaders in Moscow have also questioned the credibility of McLaren’s key witness, the former boss of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov, who admits he was central to the cheating scheme. Though the independent commission report suggested doping extended beyond athletics, WADA resisted calls from athletes and anti-doping officials to investigate Russian Federation further and did not launch a second investigation until more allegations came to light in reporting from 60 Minutes and the New York Times in May.
The Canadian law professor’s report said it was “inconceivable” that Mutko did not know what was going on and accused him of personally intervening to cover up a positive test belonging to a foreign player in the Russian Premier League.
The Russian attempting to become arguably the greatest female athlete of all time will find out today whether she has been handed an Olympic lifeline.
Putin has, however, suspended all officials named in the McLaren Report until investigations are finished.
After receiving the evidence from a report that it commissioned, WADA called for the IOC to consider a ban of Russia’s entire Olympic team.
A Russian state-owned sports television channel is approaching Western media outlets claiming the country’s banned Olympic athletes are victims of “international politics, disinformation and harassment”.
The IOC responded to McLaren’s findings by saying it needed more legal advice before deciding whether to ban Russian Federation from Rio.
The IOC said it will not grant accreditation to any official of the Russian Ministry of Sport or anyone implicated in report for the Games in Rio.
Whether the International Olympic Committee issues its decision Tuesday or simply sets the table for it to come later, it could be appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is the final authority when it comes to world sports events.
The IOC noted that it will have to take into account a decision coming tomorrow from the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which will rule on Russia’s appeal against the ban on its track and field athletes from Rio.
Two Russian athletes were able to escape inclusion in the IAAF ban after proving that they had been tested independently. “It is possible that that our athletes will be allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics, but under the Olympic flag, not a Russian one”. To prepare them [athletes] outside the country is a discriminatory demand.
FISA has written to the International Olympic Committee to ask if there is a deadline for the re-allocation of any possible quota slots if there would be a blanket ban on the Russian team or any other ban.
Resolution: Expect an answer on this soon.
Advertisement
“It’s basically cheating, and for United Kingdom athletes who are clean they’ve missed out on medals in their careers because others have cheated, it’s very serious”.
