International Olympic Committee: the IOC will start disciplinary actions related to Russian Ministry of Sport officials, explore legal options with regard to a collective ban of all Russian athletes, take steps to limit involvement in sports events in Russia, exclude Russian politicians from accreditations in Rio, reanalyze samples from Sochi, among several other steps.
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Reports of Russia’s shady state-sponsored doping during the 2014 Winter Olympics may get the country banned from competing in Rio this summer, but the country is not alone when it comes to violating the World Anti-Doping Agency’s rules.
The IOC wants to review its legal position and await the outcome of an appeal, due late tonight, of a separate but related ban on Russian track and field athletes.
Russia’s Olympic Committee has named its squad for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, despite facing a total ban against the country’s participation. It may all come down to the lawyers.
It went further. Because of the caustic revelations of cheating at the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 all global Olympic winter sports would be asked to “freeze their preparations for major events in Russian Federation, such as world championships and world cups, and to actively look for alternative organisers”.
FISA is one of 20 federations which govern sports in the summer Olympic programme that have effectively been defrauded by the elaborate doping scam run from Russia’s ministry of sport.
“They are concerned about the events around the national team but this does not inhibit them”, Zhukov told reporters.
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. McLaren’s report showed that not only the winter Olympics in Sochi two years ago was affected by the cheating; it ran to other events including the 2013 athletics world championships in Moscow.
The IOC executive decided on Tuesday to wait until after a Court of Arbitration in Sport ruling expected today before deciding whether a blanket Olympic ban on Russian competitors should be imposed.
“We shall say it this way, the source is dubious and compromised, and therefore it is not clear to us what other information is available”, Peskov said when pointing out that Rodchenkov himself was involved in manipulations with doping.
“These boycotts just lead to a breakup of the Olympic movement”, he said.
The Russians responded in kind at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, with 14 Soviet allies withdrawing from the event in California.
Following an emergency conference on Tuesday, the IOC’s executive board said it would study the “legal options” regarding a prospective Russian Federation suspension. The McLaren report alleged 11 failed drug tests in rowing had been covered up by Russian officials.
The person in charge of that World Cup bid – in fact of Russian sport since 2008 – Vitaly Mutko, is directly implicated in the McLaren report.
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Italian Olympic committee president Giovanni Malago said athletes were right to complain about Russian drug cheats. The court is now ruling on whether 68 Russian track-and-field athletes had been legally banned from worldwide competition, based on their individual histories of drugs testing.
