{"id":11388,"date":"2016-07-18T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T23:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=11388"},"modified":"2016-07-18T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T23:41:49","slug":"russian-federation-assailed-in-report-for-doping-program-beyond-sochi-hockey-and-paralympians-were-also-cited-although-no-athletes-are-named-in-the-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=11388","title":{"rendered":"Russian Federation assailed in report for doping program beyond Sochi, Hockey and Paralympians were also cited, although no athletes are named in the report."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Olympic-Rings-Sochi-AAron-O\"International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach described the findings of the report as showing a \u201cshocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games\u201d. The IOC executive board will meet Tuesday to begin sorting through options.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These may include sanctions regarding the Rio Olympic Games. Bach has frequently spoken of the fine line between \u201ccollective responsibility and individual justice\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe right to participate at the games can not be stolen from an athlete, who has duly qualified and has not be found guilty of doping\u201d, said Bruno Grandi, president of gymnastics\u2019 global federation. \u201cBlanket bans have never been and will never be just\u201d, Grandi said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The samples from pre-selected athletes at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, had positive tests discarded through an elaborate system the report calls Disappearing Positive Methodology (DPM).<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Sochi itself, where global observers were scrutinising the drug tests, positive results could not simply be brushed away, so a system of sample-swapping was put in place with the help of the FSB intelligence service, the report said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But McLaren, whose report went public Monday, said Russia\u2019s cheating also included the 2013 track world championships in Moscow and the 2015 swimming world championships in Kazan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It also called for Russian officials implicated in the scandal to be sacked and for \u201cRussian government officials to be denied access to worldwide competitions, including Rio 2016\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In short, Russia\u2019s deputy minister of sports, who was also part of Russia\u2019s Olympic Committee, would direct workers at Moscow\u2019s anti-doping laboratory of which positive samples to send through and which to hold back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FSB is Russia\u2019s federal security service while the CSP is involved in the training of Russian athletes. Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Nagornykh to his post in 2010. \u201cI was anticipating the worst\u201d, Paul Media, the top anti-doping official in Canada, said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

McLaren said out of 577 positive sample screenings, 312 positive results were held back \u2013 or labeled \u201cSave’\u201d by the lab workers \u2013 but that was only a \u201csmall slice\u201d of the data that could have been examined.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, Russian track and field athletes have appealed against their ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is due to rule by Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The World Anti-Doping Agency investigator, Richard McLaren, says scratches on the bottles were noted by a trained expert\u2019s eye and using a microscope.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ROC explained that only a majority of votes at the IOC Executive Committee could ban Russian Federation from participation in the Olympics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

International Volleyball Federation president Ary Graca says there are no \u201cmajor issues\u201d with Russian national teams scheduled to compete in Rio de Janeiro next month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several athlete and anti-doping groups were gearing up over the weekend to send letters to the International Olympic Committee urging that Russia\u2019s entire delegation be banned from the Rio Games.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There will no be mounting pressure for that to be extended even though Bach and some worldwide federations have called for a way for athletes proved to be clean to compete in Rio.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe McLaren Report confirms that, at a minimum, RUSADA\u2019s return to compliance can not be considered until all persons from the Russian Ministry of Sport and other Government Departments and Agencies that are implicated by the Report, including RUSADA, are dismissed from their roles\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach described the findings of the report as showing a \u201cshocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games\u201d. The IOC executive board will meet Tuesday to begin sorting through options. These may include sanctions regarding the Rio Olympic Games. Bach has frequently spoken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1156,7,89,10],"tags":[840,1256,1254,1255],"class_list":["post-11388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-sports","category-sports","category-track-field","category-world","tag-2016-olympics-in-rio","tag-ioc","tag-olympics-2016","tag-russian-federation","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}