Russia Accused Of Widespread Doping In Devastating Report
GENEVA (AP) — 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 — possibly even next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — 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 — host of soccer's next World Cup — said even the country's intelligence service, the FSB, was involved, spying on Moscow's anti-doping lab, including during last year's Winter Games 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's pretty disturbing," Pound said. "It's worse than we thought."
"It may be a residue of the old Soviet Union system," he added at a news conference in Geneva.
Pound said the doping could be called state-sponsored.
"They would certainly have known," he said of Russian officials.
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GENEVA (AP) — 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 — possibly even next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — 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 — host of soccer's next World Cup — said even the country's intelligence service, the FSB, was involved, spying on Moscow's anti-doping lab, including during last year's Winter Games 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's pretty disturbing," Pound said. "It's worse than we thought."
"It may be a residue of the old Soviet Union system," he added at a news conference in Geneva.
Pound said the doping could be called state-sponsored.
"They would certainly have known," he said of Russian officials.
Continued at: Russia Accused Of Widespread Doping In Devastating Report
