Posted on 11/09/2015 6:48:11 AM PST by GIdget2004
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."
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The Russians are cheating? Shocked, I tell you. I’m shocked.
The new russia. The Lance Armstrongs of the oylymic world but with twice the balls.
Well played, sir.
I’m enjoying the 70’s even less the second time around.
The USA will probably withdraw in protest unless they allow transgendered athletes to compete as their gender of choice.
You win the internet today!
And I’m stealing that quote.
When Dick Pound talks it’s in your best interest to listen.
Former Russian anti-doping chief Nikita Kamayev dies
Russian news agency says Kamayev ‘presumably’ died from heart attack
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/15/former-russian-anti-doping-chief-nikita-kamayev-dies-report
The agency's founding chairman, Vyacheslav Sinev, died Feb. 3, according to a statement from the agency, known by its acronym Rusada. It did not give a cause of death.
Both Mr. Khabriev and Mr. Kamayev resigned in December, a month after the World Anti-Doping Agency released a damning and, for the Russian government, highly embarrassing report describing a state-backed system of sports cheating in the Olympics and other international competitions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/world/europe/nikita-kamayev-ex-head-of-russian-antidoping-agency-dies.html
The two top officials dead, talking about burying the problems.
Presumed heart attack? Hmm, just like Justice Scalia. Thanks AdmSmith.
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