As a outcome, the International Olympic Committee said it will not grant any Rio accreditation “to any official of the Russian Ministry of Sport or any person implicated in the (McLaren) report”.
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In connection with the report, WADA also called on FIFA to investigate Mutko, a member of the football world body’s executive, over drug failures in football.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not spell out whether it would heed growing calls for Olympic bans already imposed on Russia’s track and field athletes and weight-lifters to be extended to all its competitors in Rio.
Now, amidst allegations of a Russian state-run testing scandal that allowed athletes to avoid detection for banned substances, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is recommending Russian athletes across sports be barred from Olympic competition. One is doping whistleblower Yulia Stepanova, the other is Florida-based long jumper Darya Klishina, who has received threats online from Russian fans who think she would betray her country by competing if the rest of the team is banned.
The IOC said this should include world championships, World Cups or other major global competitions and said winter federations should “actively look for alternative organisers”.
Now, the World Anti-Doping Agency wants Russian athletes out of the Olympics.Things just seem to go wrong right off the bat-Rio de Janeiro’s state of financial emergency, the death of a jaguar used as a mascot and now this.
WADA has called for Russian Federation to be banned and are believed to have backing from the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and other nations.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has deferred a decision on a possible ban on all Russian athletes for the Rio Games over doping while opening disciplinary proceedings against Russian sports ministry officials.
June 2016: The IAAF council votes to extend the ban on the Russian athletics federation. He urged the Olympic Committee to remember that sports are supposed to be apolitical.
This reluctance to immediately heed the calls for a radical and rapid response to Russia’s flagrant cheating will frustrate many but IOC President Thomas Bach is mindful of legal challenges and the risk of antagonising an Olympic superpower.
Zhukov said his committee did not discuss the McLaren report at its meeting, although he also did not rule out legal action if Russian Federation is hit with a total ban from the games.
Staff including a deputy sports minister and Mr Mutko’s own anti-doping advisor were accused of directing which positive tests should be hidden, while Mr Mutko himself was accused of ordering a cover-up when a footballer tested positive.
– Called on all worldwide winter sports federations to “freeze” their plans for holding major events in Russia, including world championships and World Cups, and seek alternative venues in other countries.
FIFA will ask WADA for details on individual cases of doping in Russian football referred to in the report by Canadian law professor Richard McClaren.
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All of the measures mentioned above are provisional until December 31, 2016.
