“While it is destabilizing in the lead up to the Games, it is obvious, given the seriousness of the revelations that he uncovered, that they had to be published and acted upon without delay”.
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“I can guarantee in the name of Rio 2016 that the athletes can compete in safety”, Mario Andrada told the AP, in response to a water study published by the news organization.
While more than 100 Russians – including the track and field team – have been banned from the games, more than 250 have so far been cleared to compete by the federations.
This is not the first discord between the International Olympic Committee and WADA even though Reedie is also a long-time International Olympic Committee member.
“We need to seriously work on the reformations in this sport”, Mutko, who is now on a visit to France, said.
The IOC on Sunday said it was not responsible for this uncertainty, putting the blame squarely on WADA and its July release of the McLaren report.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, center, sits down to chat with members of the Refugee Olympic Team as they eat lunch in the athletes village in advance of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeir.
“WADA wishes to factually clarify that the agency acted immediately on allegations concerning Russian Federation when it had corroborated evidence and the power to do so under the World Anti-Doping Code”, it said.
As it relates to WADA’s process of accreditation and proficiency testing of anti-doping laboratories, it focuses on the technical abilities of laboratories. “The Pound Commission leveraged all information that the whistleblowers had provided; and yet, there was no concrete evidence to support State manipulation”.
Scientists have found risky drug-resistant “super bacteria” off Rio’s beaches and in a lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete.
Calls for a blanket ban grew after Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, who was commissioned to investigate by the World Anti-Doping Agency, issued a report accusing Russia’s sport ministry of orchestrating a vast doping scheme involving athletes in more than two dozen winter and summer sports.
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“Addressing corruption within the anti-doping system – including state or secret service interference in laboratory operations – will be one of the topics discussed” during a WADA conference in September, the agency said.
