The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is due to publish a report on Monday on its probe into allegations a state-run system helped doped Russian athletes escape detection at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
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Bach also stopped well short of backing an IAAF proposal to allow Yulia Stepanova, the Russian drugs cheat turned whistleblower, whose evidence led to Russia being banned, to compete at Rio 2016.
Bach spoke in a telephone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press and two other global news agencies.
“What we have to do is to take decisions based on facts, and to find the right balance between collective responsibility and individual justice”, Bach added.
The IAAF declared that each athlete has the opportunity to appeal the decision and re-apply to meet the new “clean” criteria. Many also accused her of turning her back on Russian Federation due to her training overseas and potentially competing under a neutral flag.
He linked the duo to Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Russian doping lab, who fled to the USA, alleging details of mass doping and corruption in Russian sport.
“We fully expect this to be discussed by the CAS hearing on Tuesday”, a spokesman for the world governing body said. “We have to see how far it goes, what the evidence is and then we have to evaluate the report”.
“In the same way we would not consider sanctioning all athletes from a particular sport if there is manipulation of the rules by the leadership of a federation”.
“I submitted an application like all our other athletes”, Klishina said.
Last month, McLaren said his preliminary findings supported allegations that the Russian sports ministry was involved in manipulating test results before, during and after the track world championships in Moscow in 2013. “If she gets into it, she will become a full-fledged member of the Russian Olympic team”, Bach said.
“For us it is very clear, everybody implicated in a doping case has to be sanctioned and will be sanctioned”, he said.
United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief executive Travis Tygart told Press Association Sport that, if McLaren’s report was as damning as expected, the entire Russian delegation should be prevented from taking part in the Games.
The Court of Arbitration has said it will rule by July 21 on whether to overturn the IAAF ban on the Russian athletics federation. Asked whether the International Olympic Committee would accept the ruling if it upholds the exclusion of the Russians, Bach said, “Yes”. A total of 136 appeals were received by the IAAF, as of now 67 of which were rejected and the only one approved has been Klishina’s. The IOC is now studying her case and whether it merits “an exemption” from the Olympic Charter.
Bach says the absence of numerous top men from the Olympic golf tournament in Rio de Janeiro will be taken into account in evaluating the sport’s future in the games.
“On the other hand, we are aware of discussion in the golf community that there are obviously very different reasons for not going to Rio, not related to Zika”.
Another sport that might be a little nervous about its post-Rio evaluation is golf, back in the Olympics for the first time since 1904.
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More than 20 male players, including the top four in the world, have pulled out of Rio, majority citing fears about the Zika virus, while Rory McIlory said on Tuesday he would not even watch on TV and instead follow “sports that matter”.
