Doping without borders. The existence of athletics in Russia is called into question

Russian athletes found themselves at the center of a doping scandal, which, it seems, had not yet been analogues. This time, athletes became the main characters. It may well be that all Russian representatives of athletics will be banned from performing at the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The sport itself in Russia was on the verge of disappearance, in any case in the form in which it exists now.

1417 samples and people from the FSB

On Monday, an independent commission of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) published the results of an investigation on the situation with doping in Russia. The commission was created in December 2014, shortly after the German ARD television channel released the film “Top Secret Doping: how the winners are made in Russia”. His heroes were Russian athletes and coaches, who said that their sport was mired in corruption and doping.

The Germans gathered the textures and evidence of the participants in the process above the roof. The record was most hooked on a hidden camera, on which the doping champion 2011 and the Olympic champion of London-2012 in 800 meters, Maria Savinova, recognized Doping. In general, there were many interesting stories in that film. For example, the story of the Liliya Shobukhova runner, who stated that she had to give a bribe of 450 thousand dollars in the national team in the team in the Olympics in London.

“I can say that there are no new facts, conclusions, something unexpected for us, in the report,” after these words we all became completely calm to all of us

WADA commissions, judging by the conclusions made in the report, managed not only to confirm much of the fact that German television people were excavated, but also to dig a lot of new things about how athletes in Russia use doping and how nothing happens for it. The report took 323 pages, and this is without taking into account the table of table and list of all the abbreviations found. In it, as it always happens in the official documents of large international organizations, there are many more or less meaningless slag. But there is so much collected material on the topic of doping in Russian athletics that even our fans "how to darken out of the shower." Although it would seem that they will not surprise them with doping scandals.

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