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WADA calls for Russia suspension and 10 lifetime bans from athletics
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:03 am
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:03 am
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GENEVA -- In a devastatingly critical report, a World Anti-Doping Agency panel accused the Russian government on Monday of complicity in widespread doping and cover-ups by its track and field athletes and said they should all be banned from competition until the country cleans up its act.
The report from a WADA commission that has been probing media allegations of widespread doping and deception in Russia said even the country's intelligence service, the FSB, was involved, spying on Moscow's anti-doping lab, including during last year's Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The commission chaired by Dick Pound recommended that WADA immediately declare the Russian federation "non-compliant" with the global anti-doping code, and that the IAAF suspend the federation from competition.
It also said the International Olympic Committee should not accept any entries from the Russian federation until the body has been declared complaint with the code and the suspension has been lifted. Such a decision could keep Russian athletes out of next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The commission also accused the Russian state of complicity. It said its months-long probe found no written evidence of government involvement but it added: "It would be naive in the extreme to conclude that activities on the scale discovered could have occurred without the explicit or tacit approval of Russian governmental authorities."
The report said agents from the FSB even infiltrated Russia's anti-doping work at the Sochi Olympics. One witness told the inquiry that "in Sochi, we had some guys pretending to be engineers in the lab but actually they were from the federal security service."
Staff at Russia's anti-doping lab in Moscow believed their offices were bugged by the FSB and an FSB agent, thought to be Evgeniy Blotkin or Blokhin, regularly visited.
This was part of a wider pattern of "direct intimidation and interference by the Russian state with the Moscow laboratory operations," the report said.
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Sneaky fricking Russians
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:08 am to StraightCashHomey21
i saw this reported on al jazeeera (now in HD!) this morning
the AJ report also said there was bribing of IAAF officials
the AJ report also said there was bribing of IAAF officials
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:08 am to StraightCashHomey21
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Dick Pound
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:09 am to StraightCashHomey21
Russian athletes are doping.
Water is wet.
That being said, this is devastating to the hopes of the Russian men's 4x100m relay team.
Water is wet.
That being said, this is devastating to the hopes of the Russian men's 4x100m relay team.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:09 am to StraightCashHomey21
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The commission chaired by Dick Pound
I can't focus on the rest
This post was edited on 11/9/15 at 9:10 am
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:10 am to SlowFlowPro
The fricking Russian secret service were in in this shite.
The corruption of that country is amazing.
The corruption of that country is amazing.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:11 am to tigerpimpbot
Here is Mr. Pound in the flesh in case you were wondering
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:14 am to SlowFlowPro
East Africa is just as bad
Allowing countries to police their own athletes through national anti-doping agencies is beyond idiotic.
Allowing countries to police their own athletes through national anti-doping agencies is beyond idiotic.
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:17 am to usc6158
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Allowing countries to police their own athletes through national anti-doping agencies is beyond idiotic.
i honestly don't think there is any feasible way to truly have a worldwide regulatory body
and even if there was, it would become FIFA/IOC, which are just as terrible/corrupt as national agencies
Posted on 11/9/15 at 9:18 am to SlowFlowPro
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i honestly don't think there is any feasible way to truly have a worldwide regulatory body
You can say this for literally almost everything.
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