Meanwhile, Russian Olympic medallists and world champions have appealed to the head of the International Olympic Committee to let their athletes with no history of doping compete at Rio 2016.
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UKAD, who are now assisting the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, conducted 455 of the tests. UKAD has significantly less testing capacity than the Russian agency did because of a limited number of staff and delays to payments from the Russian authorities.
The European body said athletes deemed “at risk” would have to show they are clean through an “international and independently proven” record of drug tests.
Russian Federation has committed to cooperating in reforming its anti-doping procedures.
Another athlete exited a stadium during a race and subsequently could not be found, the report said.
But a Wednesday report from WADA and United Kingdom Anti-Doping tells a different story.
Correct whereabouts information is what makes no-notice, out-of-competition testing possible and is widely considered to be the most effective deterrent against drugs cheats.
Doping control officers also faced threats from Federal Security Service agents that they would be expelled from the country.
While the document revealed there were more than 50 “adverse analytical findings”, including 49 cases of meldonium – the substance which Maria Sharapova was recently handed a two-year suspension for using – there were plenty of other concerning findings.
The IAAF had scheduled the vote for June so that if the ban were to be lifted, Russian athletes would have a reasonable chance to post the Olympic qualifying standards before the July 11 cut-off.
What this means becomes apparent as the report explains how athletes from a variety of sports fail to provide addresses or contact details, claim to be training in restricted military cities or put misleading information on their “whereabouts” forms.
“I think when you’ve got athletes refusing to be tested, there are clearly implications just from that”.
Testers reported receiving hostile treatment when attempting to carry out drug tests in military cities, including intimidation and threats of expulsion from the country.
In one case, the report notes, an athlete was “observed running away” to avoid test officers. The container though “leaked onto the floor” whilst the athlete was standing with a doping inspector, who noted it and forced her to give another sample.
Insisting that Russian athletes will face extra drugs testing to prove their innocence, the letter added that a ban from Rio would “truly have a destructive effect on the whole system of Olympic values and cause irreparable damage to the development of sport in Russia”.
RusAthletics, the Russian athletics federation, was banned from worldwide competition by the IAAF last November over deficiencies in its anti-doping programme.
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