“In light of the prevailing doping culture endemic within Russian sport, at the very highest levels, the National Paralympic Committee of Russia appears unable or unwilling to ensure compliance with and the enforcement of the IPC’s Anti-Doping Code within its own national jurisdiction”, an IPC statement said.
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President Thomas Bach said the retesting showed the IOC’s commitment to fight doping.
The IOC retests doping samples as new technology becomes available, and it has targeted athletes planning to compete in the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro in the latest round of retesting.
The International Olympic Committee, owing to the overlapping worlds of geopolitics and sports, might well leave the decision to individual sporting bodies, but the overwhelming stench is something the quadrennial extravaganza could do without.
It said the third and fourth waves of tests will continue throughout and after the Olympics, which run from August 5-21.
The IOC said 23 of the 30 positive tests taken from the Beijing samples involved medallists.
Within the Beijing group, 23 were medallists.
The 15 athletes caught in the new London tests represent two sports and nine countries.
In all, 60 adverse findings from 840 tested samples are from Beijing and 38 from 403 tests from London. Friday’s results clarified that two of those Beijing PAAFS did not turn into AAFs, but an additional one was detected and did prove to be positive.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced on July 4 that it received a filed lawsuit from the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) against IAAF in defense of the national field and track athletes wishing to participate in the 2016 Summer Games and began hearings into the case on July 19.
And it also comes after an independent commission report earlier this week which alleged state-sponsored doping by Russian Federation centred around the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
The International Association of Athletics Federations then suspended the Russian track and field team from international competition and last month refused to overturn the ban, not satisfied with Russia’s efforts at overhauling its system.
The IOC said a decision could be made on Sunday.
Isinbayeva – who has threatened to end her career over the ban – slammed the CAS ruling as a “funeral for athletics”.
That came following the publication of the McLaren report, which found that doping of Russian athletes had been “directed [and] controlled” at state level and prompted the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to call for a blanket ban. McLaren’s findings are of serious concern for everyone committed to clean and honest sport.
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He wants Vitaly Smirnov, 81, to lead a new anti-doping commission.
