MOSCOW – Skipped due to bad weather, the meeting between Vladimir Putin and the heads of Russian sports federations, the Russian president spoke however of the doping scandal that He invested Russia: Putin has assured that his country will pay the utmost attention to the allegations contained in the report on doping WADA. Russia is likely to be suspended for two years from all competition, including the Olympics. One possibility that ” there because someone should get rid of a competitor and other damage should the country’s image, “said Vitali Mutko, Russian Sports Minister, and adds to exclude such a measure” if international organizations c ‘it is at least a certain percentage of commitment in the interest of the sport and the athletes. “Do not speak of conspiracy president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, who promises severe punishment if the allegations are proven: Zhukov pointed out that Moscow supports the Committee International Olympic and WADA anti-doping policy. Even Putin assured that Russia will provide its full cooperation and will launch its own internal investigation. The explosive report on the system’s anti-doping Russia was not a surprise to John Fahey, former chairman of Wada that during his stay he had serious doubts about the country’s commitment in pursuing violations against doping. At the head of the agency for six years, until 2013, one of the last acts of Fahey as president was to suspend the authorization to the laboratory in Moscow after an audit he found that he had failed to meet the standards. Yesterday the same laboratory was again suspended after an independent commission set up by the Wada revealed the destruction of samples and bribes pocketed by the staff to cover the positive results of the athletes. “The report certainly did not surprise me,” Fahey said in an interview with Reuters. “We held Russia under constant supervision during my administration. It was obvious that they were not doing enough in their efforts against doping.” Fahey said that WADA has regularly voiced its concerns about Russia to the International Olympic Committee. “We have done everything possible – he added – to try to improve the standard of anti-doping in Russia, we made it clear to the IOC our concerns on a regular basis”.
The Sports Minister has accepted the resignation of Grigori Rodchenkov, the director of the anti-doping laboratory in Moscow yesterday suspended its activities after the Wada – agency World Anti-Doping – decided to revoke accreditation. “There has been some criticism of Wada and myself but I want people to think I’m too political or too soft because it has emerged a part of a private correspondence that I had with the Russian Minister of Spor. I can say so categorically that I was not soft with Russia “are the words of Craig Reedie, president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, to” The Independent “. “It was I, as President Wada, to give the go ahead for the creation of an independent commission that was studying the suspicions of doping linked to Russia. And the results are seen.”
Hope IOC – who today received the resignation of former President of the IAAF Lamine Diack, honorary member of the Olympic Committee International under investigation for having pocketed money to cover up cases of doping of Russian athletes – is that Russia is put in order with the anti-doping regulations in time to allow their athletes to participate in the Olympics in Rio in 2016. The IAAF gave a week to the Russian Federation to answer charges of Wada and Thomas Bach, IOC’s number one, right on the tip of work of the World Federation. “We believe – said in a New Zealand TV – Sebastian Coe will do all that is necessary to address the issue. I believe that Russia will cooperate and give the necessary guarantees to ensure compliance with anti-doping rules of WADA, is what you need to participate in the Olympics. “
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