DOPING Grosse threat in the skies of Russian sport …
The witching hour approach to Russia more than a day before the meeting of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) could decide Friday to suspend the country from any athletics competition because of “organized doping “he is accused of practicing. Russia played the appeasement Wednesday Vladimir Putin ordered an investigation into charges of “organized doping” in the Russian athletics while considering that only the guilty, not all Russian athletes, should be punished.
At least two days of the crucial meeting of the IAAF who will decide on a possible suspension of Russia from all competition, including the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the Russian president was speaking for the first time since the beginning of the doping scandal and corruption in the Russian athletics
Putin. “We must do everything in Russia to get rid of this problem”
M. Putin, who made sports one of its strategic priorities for the influence of Russia abroad, summed up his creed: to shed light on the generalized system of charges of doping and corruption of Russian athletes, protecting athletes of doping and punish the ones responsible, not all athletes.
“We must do everything in Russia to get rid of this problem” and “we must do our own investigation, said Mr Putin Russian television, calling the Russian sports officials to the “most open cooperation, more professional with international anti-doping structures.” “This problem does not exist in Russia, but if our foreign colleagues have questions, answer them for more than they have,” said the president.
The former director of the Moscow laboratory that is the focus of suspicions, Grigori Rodtchenkov, just resigned. In its report released Monday, which triggered the earthquake, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accused of being the heart of a generalized system of doping which included the destruction of positive tests.
“It is unfair to focus solely on Russia”
Despite these overtures, Russia intends to stand firm. The exclusion of the Olympics-2016 in athletics would be to get rid of a “major competitor” and “defile the image” of the country, protested Wednesday Mr Mutko. This huge scandal reminds the institutionalized doping set up time of the Soviet bloc, including in the GDR.
In its report, the AMA said the identified doping system could not exist “without the tacit or explicit approval of the Russian government authorities. ” The question of the involvement of other countries and in other sports doping scandals is open. “Russia is not the only country nor the only sport athletics, to face the problem of doping organized”, said WADA’s report.
“It is unfair to focus solely on Russia. There should be the same survey on countries like Kenya and Ethiopia, “said Wednesday the Russian whistleblower Andrey Baranov British newspaper The Guardian. China is regularly singled out by experts.
Beyond the single issue of doping, current scandal is also marked by suspicions of corruption. The Senegalese Lamine Diack, 82, who left his post in August IAAF president after 15 years in power, is accused of covering up doping Russian athletes a fee.
leader of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, said to have “confidence” in the new IAAF President Sebastian Coe to “clean” the institution.
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