The World Antidoping Agency (WAA) proposed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to consider the total exclusion of Russia from competing in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After a meeting of the WAA Executive Committee, the antidoping agency considered the revelations presented in a brief by experts led by Canadian Richard McLaren, on an extended doping system, that has spread over Russia, thanks to support from other sources, even governmental ones, starting in the competitons of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.
The World Antidoping Agency (WAA) proposed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to consider the total exclusion of Russia from competing in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After a meeting of the WAA Executive Committee, the antidoping agency considered the revelations presented in a brief by experts led by Canadian Richard McLaren, on an extended doping system, that has spread over Russia, thanks to support from other sources, even governmental ones, starting in the competitons of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.
This method, which is believed it was implanted after the Winter Olympic Games of Vancouver (Canada) in 2010, and in operations until 2014, permitted to convert a positive antidoping result into a negative, so these once positive results, became negative to other inspectors, reported Richard McLaren to the press.
The text of the report by the experts, said the Antidoping Laboratory of Moscow covered up the athletes who were consuming dopes or estimulants, and the system was baptized as "Methodology for Disappearing Positive Antidoping Results."
McLaren, a lawyer by profession, said that the positive tests "in all the sports disciplines" were delivered to the Russian Vice-Minister of Sports, Yuri Nagornij, who "was deciding who was benefiting from the concealment and who would not be protected", depending on his, or her results.
McLaren underlined that the investigation has corroborated all these conclusions "beyond any doubt".
In accordance with the accusations, dozens of Russian athletes, including at least 15 medalists, were doped by the authorities of the host country during the Games of Sochi, where the Russian officials were substituting the samples of urine during the night .
After staying in sixth position in the Games of Vancouver, the Russian athletes achieved in Sochi the fortune of 33 medals, 13 of them gold.
McLaren did not limit himself to the Winter Games but also denounced that this concealment system worked in 2013 during the World Cups of athletics celebrated in Moscow, the world champiionships of swimming and the Universiad in Kazán.
Of course, he acquitted the Russian Olympic Committee, which president Alexandr Zhukov, denounced today "attempts of creating an international coalition of sportsmen and organizations that plead for vetoing the Russian sportsmen from competing in the Olympic Games".
In any case, McLaren denied that his function should be to recommend them to prohibit the Russian sportsmen to compete in the Games, as demanded by some western countries.
"My task was to lead an investigation and not to give recommendations. On this matter, I have not given any recommendation", he underlined.
The exclusion of Russia, which team of athletics has been already separated in expectation of a mistake by the Court of Sports Arbitration, would be one of the biggest reverses for the Olympic movement, comparable to the boycott of the Games of Moscow (1980) on the part of the United States and its Allied Forces, and of The Ángeles in 1984.
Just 18 days ahead of the beginning of the Games in Rio, the president of the IOC, German Thomas Bach, qualified the content of the report of "attack without precedents at the beginning of the Olympic Games and of the sport".
"The IOC thinks to adopt without delay the severest sanctions against those sportsmen and organizations involved in the scandal", he underlined.
For his part, the Russian Government qualified the report this Monday of "unjustified" .
"These are only words and speculation. Apparently, someone said something. There is nothing concrete. We want to know facts and confirmed names, with forceful tests", added the chief of the commission of sports of the Russian Parliament, Dmitri Svishchev.
Source: PL