Mutko also appealed for Russia’s track team to be allowed to compete, arguing that a blanket ban would unfairly punish clean athletes.
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She called the independent commission report “clear in its evidence and unequivocal in its recommendations”. Mutko said Russian Federation would provide constant updates about its investigation.
Earlier in the week, the Kremlin’s spokesman said the allegations were groundless and Russia’s sports ministry said its anti-doping policy had strictly complied with WADA norms.
The vote was 22-1.
And it was not clear, he complained, why the World Anti-Doping Agency had decided Russian Federation was suddenly not compliant with its rules after years of saying it was doing well.
The committee’s findings will go to the WADA foundation board, which will vote on it at its meeting next Wednesday.
An independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Monday that Russia’s athletics federation should be suspended after uncovering widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs.
“We have done work on anti-doping that no other country has been able to do”, Mutko told a news conference.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, talk to each other during a visit to the federal government center “South Sports” before their late-night meeting with the heads of Russia’s sports federations in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, November 11, 2015.
Isinbayeva says “all my victories are honest, “clean” and deserved”.
Bubka will be an influential voice when the IAAF’s 27-member governing council holds a teleconference Friday to decide on Russia’s fate.
The most visible lobbyist is Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, a longtime ally of President Vladimir Putin.
Bach also met Thursday evening in Switzerland with Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov, who has strong political connections in Russia.
Russia is ready to sack senior sports officials and shake up its system of anti-doping checks in order to convince world athletics’ governing body not to bar Russian athletes from the next Olympics, the country’s sports minister said on Friday.
“We are prepared to re-certify the laboratory, or to reform, or to create a new anti-doping organization”, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told Russia’s R-Sport news agency on Friday.
The decision came Friday as track’s governing body, the IAAF, was meeting to decide whether to suspend Russia’s track team from worldwide competitions.
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On Thursday, Mutko told The Associated Press that Russian Federation has no intention of boycotting next year’s Olympics if its track team is barred.
