Listen, Russian Federation built Sochi in seven years.
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After spending $51 billion and moving mountains to transform Sochi into a glittering Olympic venue for the 2014 Winter Games, Pound felt that tearing down and rebuilding the country’s corrupt anti-doping programme should be a straightforward task. “In a sense, I don’t care whether you’re there with clean athletes if the only reason is fear of getting caught, as opposed to thinking that’s the right thing to do”. “To this end, the IAAF, WADA, the member federations, and athletes need to look closely at ourselves, our cultures, and our processes to identify where failures exist and be tough in our determination to fix them and rebuild trust in our sport”.
Media will be allowed to attend the agency’s foundation board meeting on Wednesday and have access to members but TV crews and reporters were kept at arm’s length when the powerful executive committee met on Tuesday.
Pound said all it would take is a few direction from Russian politicians to insist on a cleanup of Russia’s anti-doping agency (RUSADA), its anti-doping lab and the track team.
“I would like to urge the IAAF to act objectively”, Isinbayeva said. “The five-person inspection team, led by a renowned anti-doping expert Rune Andersen, has an extraordinary amount of experience to ensure ARAF meets the criteria and is eligible to once again enter athletes into worldwide competition”, said IAAF President Sebastian Coe.
While the Russian and global Olympic Committees negotiate the country’s return, the iNADO leaders, who represented 16 countries, said the Russian track team hasn’t demonstrated it can send a clean team to the Olympics. They say, ‘Folks, the old Soviet system is over.
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“She had to stay home for political reasons,”he said”. They’ve got to bite the bullet and go full speed ahead to really get all this done in time for Rio. “But, by the way, you’re not going to get to work on your suntan next summer”.
