On Tuesday, Zhukov said that the final International Olympic Committee three-member panel decision should be made by Thursday.
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The 74-year-old Canadian restated his position in a typically forthright speech at the IOC’s 129th session in Rio, but it did not sway the room as two hours later only one of the 90 International Olympic Committee members, Britain’s Adam Pengilly, voted against the motion to endorse that decision.
The IOC responded to the Russian doping scandal by placing the burden on global sports federations to determine whether Russian athletes should be allowed to compete in Rio.
The result is death and devastation.
But even as the sporting side of the Games shifts into higher gear, the Olympic movement is still struggling to douse the troublesome sideshow of the Russian Federation doping scandal.
“The Olympic Movement stands for life and the construction of a better future”, Bach added.
In a sign of a growing rift over the issue within the Olympic movement, Mr Bach insisted he was right to reject “the nuclear option”.
“Engagement and not isolation is the key to build a more robust anti-doping system”, he said.
“Recent developments have shown that we need a full review of the WADA anti-doping system”, Bach said, in a bullish speech just three days before the Olympics open on Friday.
Concerns over state-backed doping in Russian Federation were first reported in 2014, although WADA says the first concrete evidence only surfaced in May this year.
The Russian weightlifting federation has sought to overturn its suspension by the International Weightlifting Federation over the doping.
“The IOC has no authority to declare any organization non-compliant with the WADA code”.
The feud between the International Olympic Committee and WADA came as the legal imbroglio triggered by the Russian scandal continued to dog the build-up to the games. But The Daily Telegraph has learnt some misinterpreted the information about which athletes were found to have had positive tests covered up.
Israeli member Alex Gilady echoed that view.
Reedie later said he was “personally offended” by Werthein’s comments and revealed that he confronted the Argentine during a break in the meeting.
“I completely understand that it was a complicated and hard decision without a flawless solution”, Probst said. But he was offended by Argentina’s Gerardo Werthein, who accusedWADA of grand-standing.
According to Reedie, the agency has nothing to do with politics as it is seeking to protect “clean” athletes, reports Tass.
With appeals involving a dozen other Russian swimmers, wrestlers and weightlifters still to be decided, the controversy over state-run doping blamed on the Russian government threatens to overshadow tomorrow’s opening ceremony. “It puts pressure on everyone”, he said.
Zhukov criticized the IAAF for banning Russia’s track and field team and took a swipe at WADA, saying the same agency which sought a complete ban is the same one that had supervision over Russia’s anti-doping agency and doping lab. “However, 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”.
He blasted calls for a “nuclear option” blanket ban on Russian athletes.
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“We may disagree how we get there but we all work toward the same goal of protecting clean athletes”.
