webfact Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Russia slammed for “cheating culture” in anti-doping reportMOSCOW: -- Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has strongly denied Russia state involvement in doping accusations released on Monday by the World Anti-Doping Agency. In an interview with Russian television, he said the independently commissioned report said nothing unexpected.“Doping is not (just) the problem of Russia. Russia shouldn’t be singled out. It’s a world problem, and we know that all countries are fighting against this evil, and we also do that and will continue doing that. We created a serious system to fight against doping. We disqualify about two percent of athletes every year like other countries do,” he said.The report says Russia has a deeply rooted culture of cheating. It accuses the country’s anti-doping agency of collusion and there being state sponsorship of the use of performance enhancing drugs.WADA’s main findingsScale of corruption goes beyond that of FIFA scandal, with results at international athletics competitions affected due to the cheating.Inadequate testing and poor compliance around testing standardsNeither the Russian athletics federation (Araf) , the Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada), nor the Russian Federation can be considered anti-doping compliant.Confirmed allegations that some Russian doctors and/or laboratory personnel acted as enablers for systematic cheating along with some athletics coaches.The intentional destruction of more than 1,400 samples by Moscow laboratory officials after receiving WADA instructions to preserve target samples.Russia gave athletes advanced warings of drugs testing, hid missed tests and bullies control officers to cover up missed tests.Found that a number of Russian athletes suspected of doping could have been prevented from competing in the London 2012 Olympics had it not been “for the collective laissez-faire policy” adopted by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the Russian athletic federation.Coe to look at possible sanctionsIAAF President Lord Coe has said the Russian athletics federation, Araf has been given until the end of the week to respond to the allegations. Coe who has just taken over at the helm of the IAAF after the federation’s long-time president, Laimine Diack was accused of concealing a Russian athlete’s doping violation, says he will be looking at a range of options, including sanctions.WADA has called for Russia to be banned from international competions and for its athletes to be barred from taking part in the 2016 Rio Olympics. -- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-11-10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePai Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Russians, what else do you expect, they follow the example of their Leader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil B Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Well if the athletes have been cheating, what about the footballers... 2018 World cup in Russia without Russia... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usernames Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Where are the Chinese in all this, I wonder. They learned everything they know about cheating from the Russians. They've got to be in somebodies sights, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Well, no sugar coating, diplomatic double speak there. If this report does not get you banned really nothing will. Lord Coe, step up and do the right thing or become part of the problem not the solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHolmesJr Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Another version of sanctions against the russkies….doping is not a country specific malaise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
car720 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 and everyone is worried about a US vs China confrontation. They have already said that the Russian field and track have been dumped from the next games. I believe this is much more threatening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangon04 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I naturally assumed that the Soviet Union and its satellites had routinely sponsored doping to achieve sporting dominance - remember the East German Ladies Shotputt team? I also would have expected the then - USA to respond likewise in a vaguely hypocritical fashion. I would like to think the human race can grow out of this particular petty jealousy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copa8 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 (edited) Where are the Chinese in all this, I wonder. They learned everything they know about cheating from the Russians. They've got to be in somebodies sights, too. Why not also asked where are the Bulgarians, Hungarians, Albanians, Romanians, Poles, etc in all this, I wonder too? Edited November 10, 2015 by copa8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2alex4alex Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 It's nice to see that some people here still believes in fairy tales..Grow up! In nowadays it's not possible at the most of kind of sports to win anything without doping. It means that you never were seriously engaged in sports if you don't know about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 I think the issue is that Russia it was endemic to the nation right up to senior government level. I don't think that's the case in too many countries. Certainly among individual athletes it is.Another thing I don't like is countries being able to buy athletes from other countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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