National anti-doping agencies demand to remove Russian athletes from the 2016 Olympiad

The Board of Directors of the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations (INADO) called for the retirement of the Russian team in athletics from participating in the 2016 Olympic Games. "WFLA and Russian athletes should be removed from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Corruption in Russian athletics deserves strict punishment," the statement said .

"WFLA did not demonstrate that it is able to send a clean team to the games. National federations should understand: they cannot participate in the highest level competitions if the anti -doping rules are intentionally overthrow. Acts of the VFLA, which deliberately trampled sports rules, had a comminity of all Russian athletes," the document emphasizes.

Last week, the Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) temporarily suspended Russia from competitions under its auspices for an indefinite period. 22 members of the committee out of 24 voted for the removal of Russia. One voted against. Russia, which is part of the Council, had no vote.

The decision entered into force immediately. This makes the participation of the Russian national athletics team in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In addition, Russia will not accept the team championship of the world in sports walking in Cheboksary and the Youth World Cup on walking in Kazan. These competitions are scheduled for 2016.

On November 9, WADA report was published. With reference to the data transmitted by the Interpol, it was argued that leading Russian athletes, including participants in the Olympic Games and winners of prestigious competitions, have been taking doping for years . In addition, the authors of the document stated that instructors, coaches and doctors, as well as various institutions, were involved in the Russian doping program.

The report included Rusada and the Anti -Doping Center, which studied samples for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, were among the reports in Sochi. It was reported on remuneration for concealing doping tests and agreements with athletes who knew that the samples taken from them would be destroyed.

The orders of manipulations with doping tests of athletes, according to the report, gave me a mutko personally, and operatives of the FSB were observed in the destruction of samples in the laboratory. As noted, three days before the audit, which WADA sent to the "Anti-Doping Center", its director Grigory Rodchenkov destroyed 1417 doping tests.

On Tuesday, WADA suspended the accreditation of the "Anti -Doping Center". On the same day, Rodchenkov resigned, so that, according to Mutko, "all the negative to carry with him."

On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin announced the need to struggle with the use of doping in sports . In connection with the resulting scandal around the use of doping by Russian athletes, it is necessary to conduct your own internal investigation and ensure the most open professional cooperation with international anti -doping structures, ”the president noted.