Released in spring 2016, the deep dive into doping data reveals that Russian athletes generated 148 anti-doping rule violations, followed by Italy (123), India (96), Belgium and France (both 91). It may all come down to the lawyers.
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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.
The 60-year-old said the majority of global sporting federations supported Russian athletes competing in Rio and added comments by USA officials calling for a blanket ban were an attempt to influence the IOC’s decision.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland is about to hand down a ruling which will determine the Olympic fate of the track and field team. Should the court rule Thursday in their favor, it would seemingly rule out the chance of the International Olympic Committee imposing a blanket ban. Russian Federation plans to send a total of 387 athletes, including 68 in track and field, he said.
The International Canoe Federation has banned sprint teams from Romania and Belarus from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics for widespread doping.
“Therefore, the International Olympic Committee will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organisation implicated”. IOC President Thomas Bach has repeatedly called for a balance between “individual justice and collective punishment”.
By STEPHEN WILSON and EDDIE PELLS AP Sports Writers A letter drafted by US and Canadian anti-doping leaders urging Russia’s removal from the upcoming Olympics is circulating days before the public.
The Russians responded in kind at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, with 14 Soviet allies withdrawing from the event in California. It said the ministry had help from Russia’s intelligence service, the FSB.
The investigation uncovered an alleged doping program that ensnared 28 sports, both summer and winter, and ran from 2011 to 2015. But addressing the ban by the IOC of Russian sports administrators, he said he was ready to accept it because “we have always been guests at the Olympics”, and that the important issue was that the Russian Olympic team go to the games.
McLaren’s report also confirmed details of state-supported doping that subverted the testing at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
McLaren, who produced a report for the World Anti-Doping Agency, said there was a “state-dictated failsafe system” of drug cheating. FISA Executive Committee has noted: WADA: the recommendation by the WADA Executive Committee that the IOC and the IPC consider declining all entries submitted by the Russian Olympic Committee and the Russian Paralympic Committee for Rio2016. The IOC is expected to hold another executive board meeting in the next few days, possibly on Sunday, to consider whether to ban the Russian team.
While putting off a decision on banning Russia, the executive board announced a series of measures to punish Russian athletes and officials implicated in doping.
– will launch retesting, including forensic analysis, of doping samples from the Sochi Games. One, long jumper Darya Klishina, may compete in Rio de Janeiro under a neutral Olympic flag, along with ten athletes who are refugees from war-torn countries.
The McLaren report showed the Sports Ministry “directed, controlled and oversaw” a “unique” method of sample manipulation at Sochi 2014, while 30 sports are alleged to have been implicated in the swapping of samples to hide positive tests.
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“I can’t find any other explanations”. “We were puzzled and viewed this as pressure on the International Olympic Committee”.
