Olympics: IOC to urgently pursue Russian doping before Rio Games

McLaren’s report primarily focused on Russian athletes from a wide range of summer and winter Olympic sports that had benefited from the state’s policy to make positive doping results disappear, especially after a poor showing at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

WADA annual report includes 83 different sports, Olympic and otherwise, from athletes in more than 100 different countries. Should the court rule Thursday in their favor, it would seemingly rule out the chance of the International Olympic Committee imposing a blanket ban. When preliminary screenings indicated a likely positive test (i.e., showing the presence of a prohibited substance), the lab had standing instructions to provide that information to the deputy minister of sport, who examined the list and determined whether the athlete should be “saved” or “quarantined”.

“As the hysteria around banning the Russian Federation from Rio 2016 Summer Olympics is at its peak, we at Match TV made a documentary about the people who are hurt the most as a result of what amounts to global politics – the athletes”, an email from Match TV General Producer Tina Kandelaki wrote.

Pound said he understands the International Olympic Committee delaying the decision for fear of legal reprisal from Russian athletes, but says they’ve missed an opportunity by not embracing WADA’s recommendations.

But Bach has frequently spoken about the fine line between “collective responsibility and individual justice”.

The IOC executive board held a meeting by teleconference on Tuesday to consider its steps in the wake of the McLaren report, which found that 28 summer and winter Olympic sports were affected by state-operated cheating in Russian Federation.

McLaren’s report also confirmed details of state-supported doping that subverted the testing at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

UFC heavyweight signee Bilyal Makhov spoke out against the the World Anti-Doping Agency’s suggested ban on Russia’s participation in the Olympics. “So, sometimes in a race if there’s Russian athletes ahead of you and you know that they’re doping, you kind of just give yourself what position you would be if they weren’t in the race anyway for yourself, personally”, she explains.

But Dick Pound, who was WADA’s first president, said he feared the International Olympic Committee was loath to take such a step, leaving doubts over any athlete participating under the Russian flag. The IOC is expected to hold another executive board meeting in the next few days, possibly on Sunday, to consider whether to ban the Russian team.

“As for our athletes, the composition of main national teams, as a rule, changes by about 50% at each Olympic Games”.

– will launch retesting, including forensic analysis, of doping samples from the Sochi Games.

Corruption expert Sylvia Schenk from Transparency International favours an Olympic exclusion for Russian Federation, but also says that any such decision can not be the last word.

A laboratory in Moscow operates, for the protection of Russian athletes, within a state-dictated failsafe system.

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An independent (WADA) report into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Russian sport was published Monday. The Olympic Summit on October 8, 2016 will propose further measures in this respect.