“Sports should be clean and the health of athletes should be well protected”, he said. Reanalysis of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics in Beijing and London has exposed a further 45 positive tests, the International Olympic Committee announced on Friday.
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“The door is open for the International Olympic Committee to decide, to determine even on a case-by-case principle whether these athletes are eligible or not”, Reeb told reporters outside the court headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The International Olympic Committee is weighing up whether to ban Russian Federation from next month’s games in Rio de Janeiro after revelations of a massive doping cover-up, but relations between the two were once much sunnier.
“The principle of collective punishment is unacceptable for me”, Gorbachev said.
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.
Following the report WADA urged a ban on Russian athletes from all global sports competitions, including Rio 2016.
“I am anxious and deeply upset by the possibility that in the case of a ban on Russian athletes competing in the Olympics, the innocent will be punished along with the guilty”, he wrote in the letter, published on his website.
Putin proposed veteran sports official and former International Olympic Committee vice president Vitaly Smirnov as the head of the independent commission. After becoming president of the International Olympic Committee, he kept his other role as chairman of the supervisory board of Weinig, a Germany company which produces woodworking machinery.
Until Friday, the sanctions and potential punishments against Russian Federation had been directed at its Olympic team, not the Paralympic team.
The Russians have one of the top Paralympic teams. The allegations gained steam, however, in May of this year when the former head of the lab that oversaw athlete testing spoke to the New York Times about the extent of the program.
This followed revelations of systemic cheating in athletics which has already led to Russia’s track and field team being barred from Rio.
“We are comfortable with the main grid, which is the national interconnected system, and with Light, which was preparing since the World Cup and has an operating scheme set up”, the source said. “They’ve always been frightened of strength”.
“It’s dishonest”, he said.
The father of four, who spends much of the year away from his young family, credits them with keeping him hungry for more success.
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Vera Rebrik, who won gold in the javelin for Ukraine at the European Championships before switching her allegiance to Russian Federation after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, was left out by the ruling. I know I can do better. “I can’t find the words”, she told Russian state broadcaster Match TV.
