The IOC will make a decision on the matter on Tuesday.
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The state-sponsored cheating happened after an “abysmal” medal count at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010, WADA said. It included the 2013 track world championships in Moscow and was in place as recently as the 2015 swimming world championships in Kazan.
Its findings have the potential to throw the Olympic movement into crisis, with world, American and Canadian anti-doping bodies calling for Russian Federation – which has already had its track and field and weightlifting athletes banned from competing in Rio – to be thrown out of the 2016 Olympics.
“All athletes have a right to clean sport and a right to compete clean”.
The IOC has promised the “toughest sanctions available” but hasn’t yet detailed how it would respond to the McLaren report or whether it would act on WADA’s recommendation to ban Russian Federation.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee described the report’s findings as “shocking and deeply concerning” but did not specify what action it wanted taken against Russian Federation.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev suspended Deputy Sports Minister Yury Nagornykh, who was named in a report on the doping of Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
The WADA report found the Russian Government operated “a state-dictated failsafe system” of doping, including at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
These samples were given to an FSB agent, who was given security clearance into the laboratory as a sewer engineer.
As a result, WADA has asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to forbid Russian teams from participating in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
IOC President Thomas Bach gives a news conference after the Olympic Summit on doping.
McLaren said the report was “credible and verifiable” and called Rodchenkov “was a credible and truthful person”.
US Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis T.
The WADA inquiry published Monday confirmed claims widespread doping across Russian summer and winter sports was tied to the government ministry headed by Mutko.
” While not calling for a Rio ban, he did add: “We must come to come together as an worldwide community”.
Professor Richard McLaren was appointed by WADA to investigate allegations of Russian state manipulation of the doping control process, which were made by the former director of the WADA-accredited laboratory in Moscow, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov.
“Russia’s Olympic Committee was extremely disappointed with the moves by the Anti-Doping Agencies of the United States and Canada”, Zhukov wrote in his letter, which was released by the Russian committee’s press service on Monday. The scale of this is incredible, and it also involved paralympic athletes.
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“I didn’t need to get into that”.
