“We now need a president of the International Olympic Committee who meets his leadership role and shows strength of leadership”, Freitag said.
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“We expect [to have] a decision within seven days on the participation of Russian competitors in Rio”, said International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau.
WADA on Monday demanded the Federation Internationale de Football Association ethics committee launch a probe into claims made about the Russian sports minister’s involvement in state-sponsored doping cover-ups which have rocked the Olympic movement.
The IOC on Tuesday said that Mutko will not be accredited to the Rio 2016 Olympics as a person named in the WADA report.
WADA’s recommendation to IOC was made on Monday, which was based on an investigation by an independent commission with a conclusion that the Russian State manipulated the doping control process, particularly, during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
“The issue will be finally resolved by the end of this week, probably on Sunday”, Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov said Wednesday at a meeting of the ROC.
At an emergency IOC Executive Board meeting in Switzerland, the day after an independent report detailed a systematic and state-run doping programme in Russian Federation, members fell short of an immediate ban but they did issue a series of measures relating to the report.
The IOC has said that they will wait until the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) delivers its verdict on Thursday before making any decision. That was expected on Thursday.
– Said it will not organize “or give patronage” to any sports event or meetings in Russian Federation, including plans to hold the European Games in the country in 2019.
“Of course we hope for a CAS ruling in our favor”, Zhukov told state TV.
At the Olympics in Russian capital Moscow in 1980, the United States led a 65-country boycott after the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.
“And I think this is an association that has been caught cheating so many times that something like this needs to happen for them to take a real look at what they’re doing, and to clean up their sport”.
“The right to participate at the games can not be stolen from an athlete, who has duly qualified and has not been found guilty of doping”, Bruno Grandi, president of gymnastics’ global federation, told The Associated Press.
And IOC president Thomas Bach called the doping scandal a “shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games”.
An investigator looking into Russian doping found the country’s state-directed cheating program resulted in no fewer than 312 falsified results and lasted from 2011 through at least last year’s world swimming championships.
The Russian Olympic contingent is facing a ban from the Rio Olympics this summer after a report uncovered a state sponsored doping cover up, which involved Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man, the Russian Intelligence Services and other sporting officials.
THE International Olympic Committee said yesterday it would take up to a week to decide whether to ban Russian Federation from the Rio Olympics over its “state” doping machine.
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.
McLaren’s bombshell report said the sports ministry under Vitaly Mutko organized the subterfuge under which tainted urine samples were replaced and kept away from worldwide observers.
The IOC can also let individual worldwide federations decide to ban Russians in their own sports.
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“As for our athletes, the composition of main national teams, as a rule, changes by about 50% at each Olympic Games”. The FISA EC carefully noted that the International Olympic Committee asks all IFs for a full inquiry and, in case of implication in infringements of the World Anti-Doping Code, sanctions against Russian National Federations.
