Athletics doping report calls for Russia to be suspended from competition

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Athletics doping report calls for Russia to be suspended from competition

MONTREAL: -- A report into doping in athletics recommends that Russia should be banned from international competition including the Rio Olympics in 2016.

The World Anti-Doping Agency commission report examined allegations of doping, cover-ups and extortion in Russian athletics.

The findings also identified ‘corruption and bribery within the IAAF’ at the highest level of international athletics, as well as ‘systemic failures’ in the IAAF that prevent an ‘effective’ anti-doping programme.

“For 2016 our recommendation is that the Russian Federation be suspended,” the Chairman of the WADA Independent Commission, Richard Pound, told a press conference. “In fact one of our hopes is that they will volunteer that so that they can undertake the remedial work in time to make sure that the Russian athletes can compete under a new framework. If they don’t then it has to play itself out and the outcome may be that there are no Russian track and field athletes in Rio. I hope that they recognise that it’s time to change and make those changes.”

The report also stated that the London 2012 Olympics were ‘sabotaged’ by the participation of Russian athletes who should probably have been under suspension.

The commission pushed for lifetime bans for the gold and bronze medal winners in the 800 metres at the games,
Mariya Savinova-Farnosova and Ekaterina Poistogova.

The commission said evidence had been handed over to Interpol who will launch a French-led international investigation into allegations of doping.

The commission chairman said: “The public view will move towards believing all sport is corrupt. If you can’t believe results then there is a serious credibility problem.”

Britain’s Lord Coe, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, said these were “dark days for the sport.”


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-11-10

[selftaopath]

GREAT. Let the "chips" fall where they deserve to.

[pinkpanther99]

Sport, foreign policy, I'm not sure the Russians can be trusted with regards to anything.

If a state sponsored doping program is proven, because that what is being accused here, then Russia should not only be barred from competing at the Olympics in Rio, they should be stripped of hosting the World Cup.

[NongKhaiKid]

Seb Coe is shocked but why, athletics as with other sports has been suspect for years.

Coe was deputy to the former IAAF President for many years and when elected President just weeks ago attacked critics of doping etc and now this !

In all his time he appears to have known nothing. He should change his name from Seb to Sepp.

[Usernames]

Brezhnev. Putin. All the same. Cheat, lie, steal, hide, deflect, sabotage to win at all costs.

[SiSePuede419]

In Snowboarding, if you get caught not doping you can get suspended, 555

[Langsuan Man]

All this will do is to cause Putin and his ilk to declare that there is another conspiracy against the Russian Federation by all it's enemies

Sorry Mr. Putin, your country did not just become fantasyland because you want it so

As the Russians are fond of saying; Russia is a country , with Ukraine is is a empire

And we all know what kind of empire

[Freed1948]

It would be good if they were banned, but many other countries are in the same boat.

[NickJ]

I would like to see events where PED are used.......

[Rancid]

If true then fair enough. However maybe it's just me but seems everywhere you look in the western media there is some attack going on against Russia.

But when you read wider it seems the accusations are made and then the actual evidence (as in real rather than contrived) never seems to turn up or just doesn't stack up.

No Slavic blood in me so no barrel to push, just seems we are being prepped and attitudes manipulated for something that I hope isn't an unwinable war.

[Ulic]

I would like to see events where PED are used.......

I am not sure you read the article correctly. You ARE watching events where PED are being used.

[Ulic]

If true then fair enough. However maybe it's just me but seems everywhere you look in the western media there is some attack going on against Russia.

But when you read wider it seems the accusations are made and then the actual evidence (as in real rather than contrived) never seems to turn up or just doesn't stack up.

No Slavic blood in me so no barrel to push, just seems we are being prepped and attitudes manipulated for something that I hope isn't an unwinable war.

Anyone who follows sport and athletics in particular at any level deeper than watching the

Diamond League on Euro Sport knows PEDs are endemic. It is a tough battle and it will go

on in perpetuity as there is money and glory in sport performance. Even in your local gym

were they is no money and only personal satisfaction drugs are pervasive. From police

officers to stock brokers the people who frequent the gym are often taking PED.

If you listened to Dick Pound he clearly stated that they were given a very narrow mandate

to examine Russian Athletics, but he also said this is a wide spread issue with national

sports federations around the world. Kenya is already in the crosshairs and could well be

banned from all international competition for the next four years. Lord Coe has his work cut

out for him. Only when federations/countries are banned from world competition including

the Olympics will the problem be reigned in (not eliminated). Even this report was only

commissioned after the German expose on drugs in athletics and Russia in particular.

Great work by the reporter to get the ball rolling.

[anon4546543]

Russian thugs, stand over merchants, political corruption, lies, war mongers and now sports cheats. What is new. Don't just ban the sports cheats. Isolate and ban Russia. Period. Scum

[Doc46]

IF,IF Any Country and or Athletes Have to be Banned from A,Competing B,World record Games ,C Olympic Games ,,,There wouldn't be any games and any competitions,,,,There are Drugs in Any sport No good in Denying this ,If some one says There are not The are FOOLS to believe themselves Amen.

[2alex4alex]

So many people still believe that you can be one of the best in the world just eating healthy food, doing yr exercise properly and not smoking/drinking..Sure you just never tried to do it..In modern world of sport it's impossible to be on the top without using doping. Even if you are very gifted... Don't be so naive.