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WADA Calls for All Russian Athletes to Be Barred From Olympics Following Damning New Report
LBN thread: Russian government participated in state-sponsored doping, per WADA investigation
Source: ABC News
WADA Calls for All Russian Athletes to Be Barred From Olympics Following Damning New Report
By PATRICK REEVELL MOSCOW — Jul 18, 2016, 1:52 PM ET
The World Anti-Doping Agency has recommended today that Russia be totally barred from this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after a damning new investigation by the body found the country directed a doping cover-up affecting virtually “all sports” in the country.
Russia’s track and field athletes are already banned from competing in Rio after a WADA investigation in November found a cover-up of systemic doping among them. The new WADA investigation found that doping affected almost every sport, not just track and field, and provided fresh evidence it was controlled directly by the Russian state.
The investigation was presented in Toronto today by the man who oversaw it, Richard McLaren, a Canadian lawyer commissioned by WADA to examine spectacular claims made in May to The New York Times of a cover up at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. McLaren's report largely upheld the claims made to The New York Times by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia's anti-doping laboratory, but also described in far greater detail how the system had been controlled directly by Russia's ministry of sport and aided by its F.S.B. security service.
Speaking at a news conference, McLaren said Russia had created a “state-directed” system that “allowed cheating Russian athletes to compete while using performance enhancing drugs” and that this affected “all sports."
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By PATRICK REEVELL MOSCOW — Jul 18, 2016, 1:52 PM ET
The World Anti-Doping Agency has recommended today that Russia be totally barred from this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after a damning new investigation by the body found the country directed a doping cover-up affecting virtually “all sports” in the country.
Russia’s track and field athletes are already banned from competing in Rio after a WADA investigation in November found a cover-up of systemic doping among them. The new WADA investigation found that doping affected almost every sport, not just track and field, and provided fresh evidence it was controlled directly by the Russian state.
The investigation was presented in Toronto today by the man who oversaw it, Richard McLaren, a Canadian lawyer commissioned by WADA to examine spectacular claims made in May to The New York Times of a cover up at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. McLaren's report largely upheld the claims made to The New York Times by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia's anti-doping laboratory, but also described in far greater detail how the system had been controlled directly by Russia's ministry of sport and aided by its F.S.B. security service.
Speaking at a news conference, McLaren said Russia had created a “state-directed” system that “allowed cheating Russian athletes to compete while using performance enhancing drugs” and that this affected “all sports."
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wada-calls-russian-athletes-barred-olympics-damning-report/story?id=40668218
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