Russia’s Olympic committee reports ‘important’ steps to fix — IOC president

A bombshell report published last week by a WADA independent commission found evidence of state-sponsored doping and large-scale corruption in Russian track and field, and recommended that Russia’s athletics federation be suspended and that five athletes be handed lifetime bans.

WADA president Craig Reedie told Scott, “It’s quite hard to agree today, around this table, that we would investigate all sports around the world”.

“The only sanction is that enough is enough”.

WADA chief Dick Pound has stated that Russian Federation could be allowed to participate in the 2016 Olympics if it quickly resolves the violation. Russia’s track and field athletes are indefinitely banned from global competition and could miss the Olympics in Rio.

Worldwide Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Saturday he was “confident” that Russia would comply with any conditions in time for Rio, but his IAAF counterpart Sebastian Coe said there will be no timetable for Russian readmission.

“The compliance system we have, as you may have heard, involves us actually speaking to our organisations before we declare them non-compliant”.

“Israel, along with a small number of other countries, was unexpectedly announced as non-complaint with the WADA guidelines”, said Schreiber. “My hope is that there is not a generation of athletes that have their dreams stolen from them too”. “A strong deterrent message must be sent”. “If they think that others are doping and the sports federations are covering it up or not enforcing rules, that erodes their willingness to compete as a clean athlete”.

The IAAF confirmed Araf’s qualification for membership would be verified by an inspection team led by Rune Andersen, based on criteria decided upon in consultation with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada). “We’ve done, already, all of the things on our own behalf all of the things that are now being said should be done for all sports”. “I feel that there are a lot of athletes watching and waiting right now”.

“By stopping the activities of our anti-doping bodies, we are ceasing all kinds of work to fight doping on Russian territory”, Mutko said, adding that his country was requesting that the laboratory be promptly re-accredited.

Scott’s proposal delivered context into a debate about the WADA budget, which stands at about $26 million a year and is in line for a 2 or 3 percent increase, but clearly needs more if thorough investigations are going to continue. “The objective is to change behavior, not to go out and do an eye-for-an-eye, and do a punitive thing”, Pound told reporters. This is in fact confusing, as ISO certification is all about management systems and has nothing whatsoever to do with WADA compliance.