Bach has frequently spoken about the fine line between “collective responsibility and individual justice”.
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But it did not hide its distain for the findings or the Russian former doping official whose allegations sparked the probe.
Athletes would seal the bottles, complete the doping control form, and subsequently take a picture of the bottle sample number.
That urgent verdict is scheduled for Thursday but could be rendered meaningless by an International Olympic Committee blanket ban.
None are named by McLaren on Monday, though some names emerged in May after reports by CBS’s “60 Minutes” and the New York Times, which interviewed Rodchenkov. “I’m positive the report was not leaked”.
He was relying on the IOC and worldwide sports federations to figure out appropriate sanctions.
The World Anti-Doping Agency, which polices drug cheating in sports, accused the Russian government of complicity in a widespread doping regime, calling into question whether any Russian athletes should be permitted to compete at Summer Olympics next month.
The results of a Russian appeal to the court of arbitration for sport in Lausanne will be revealed on Thursday. In a move that accentuates how complicated the matter can become, the International Olympic Committee has said there is no contingency for a large group of Russians competing under a neutral flag – that Russians should compete for the Russian team if they’re allowed in.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report found the Russian Government operated “a state-dictated failsafe system” of doping, including at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
How the authorities opened the sample bottles is unknown, though McLaren’s investigation found a way to remove caps from the bottles “without any evidence visible to the untrained eye”.
The WADA report said Nagornykh was told about every positive drug test across all sports from 2011 onwards, and it was he who decided “who would benefit from a cover-up and who would not be protected”.
The anti-doping watchdog also called on world governing bodies of sports implicated in the inquiry report to consider action against Russian national bodies.
“The State had the ability to transform a positive analytical result into a negative one by ordering that the analytical process of the Moscow Laboratory be altered”.
“The Moscow Laboratory personnel acted as they did because, as (one) witness expressed, if they did not, they would no longer be employed there”, he concluded.
“For the athletes around the world that truly do aspire for clean sport and ethics of sport and the spirit of the Olympic Games, the IOC needs to send a strong statement”, says Dr. Trent Stellingwerff of the Canadian Sport Institute in Greater Victoria. Federation Internationale de Football Association said it will “take the appropriate next steps” based on feedback it gets.
McLaren said out of 577 positive sample screenings, 312 positive results were held back – or labeled “Save'” by the lab workers – but that was only a “small slice” of the data that could have been examined. Thirty other sporting codes are involved.
The investigations showed that caps had been removed from a number of samples, and that they contained unusually high levels of salt, “significantly exceeding the levels produced by the human body”.
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Russian sport has been under extensive scrutiny in recent months following the decision to ban the country’s track and field athletes from competition at the summer Olympics in Rio.
