Ban Russia from Rio if Sochi claims are proven - Travis Tygart
Source: Daily Mail UK
One of the world's leading anti-doping experts has called on Olympic chiefs to ban Russia from the Rio Games across all sports if allegations of state-sponsored doping at Sochi 2014 are proven.
An independent commission, set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and chaired by Professor Richard McLaren, has been investigating those claims and its report will be published in Toronto on July 18. United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief executive Travis Tygart told Press Association Sport that, if McLaren's report was as damning as expected, the entire Russian delegation should be prevented from taking part in the Games.
"If the claims about the 2014 Winter Olympics are true, we wholeheartedly agree with International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach that it's an unprecedented level of criminality and we think those behind this criminal enterprise should not be anywhere near the Olympics," said Tygart. He said such dramatic action was needed as global sport was facing an integrity crisis.
McLaren has primarily been looking into claims made by the former director of the WADA-accredited laboratory in Moscow, Grigory Rodchenkov, that he doped dozens of athletes, including at least 15 medallists, in the build-up to the 2014 Winter Games held in the Russian resort of Sochi.
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