World Anti-Doping Agency rubber stamps the ‘The Independent McLaren Investigation Report’

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) athlete committee expressed outrage Monday over “the truly shocking” revelations regarding Russia’s rampant state-run doping program. The IOC executive board will now decide whether to impose any sanctions.

But in his report on Russian doping, arbitrator Richard McLaren did not make any recommendations for the future of the Russian team at the Rio Olympics.

Russian track and field athletes are now already banned from worldwide competition following the suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) as an global Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Member.

The WADA report found the Russian Government operated “a state-dictated failsafe system” of doping, including at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

“How could these organisations know in advance the content of the report before it was officially presented?”

Coaches and trainers say they’ve seen first-hand the negative impact doping’s had on athletes who try to win without cheating.

“The 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”, said Bruno Grandi, president of gymnastics’ global federation.

“Upon embarking on its investigation the [investigator] quickly found a wider means of concealing positive doping results than had been publicly described for Sochi”, the report states. Such demands are echoed in a statement issued by the executive committee of WADA, which recommends, for example, that the IOC and IPC should consider declining entries for Rio 2016 of “all athletes submitted by the Russian Olympic Committee and the Russian Paralympic Committee”.

In Victoria, where so many Canadian Olympic athletes and elite train, officials say the IOC needs to send a strong message.

The IOC has promised the “toughest sanctions available” but hasn’t yet detailed how it would respond to the McLaren report or whether it would act on WADA’s recommendation to ban Russian Federation.

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“Officials named in the commission’s report as direct perpetrators will be temporarily suspended from their duties until the full completion of an investigation”, Putin said in the statement on Monday, without specifically identifying such officials.

“We get the impression that USADA at least had access to the unpublished report and maybe itself set the tone and content”, the Kremlin said.

McLaren suggested the numbers could have been higher, but he had only 57 days for his investigation.