Mutko: We are ready to check for doping the entire national team of Russia

Russia is ready to once again check for doping all the candidates for the national team before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. This was stated by Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko, reports TASS.

"We are ready the entire national team - today there are potentially 400 candidates for a trip to Rio de Janeiro - we are even ready to pay additionally, they are ready to test all candidates for the trip to test total again," Mutko said. The minister emphasized that measures to counteract doping are taken in Russia on an ongoing basis.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the Executive Council of the International Athletics Federation deprived Russia of one male and one female quota for participation in the 2016 games. The decision was made due to several positive doping sections during the qualification to the games. Earlier, the Russian team had a maximum quota - 10 people, six men and four women. IWF also deprived the two Olympic quotas of the team of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the DPRK and Moldova. One quota was recalled by the national teams of Belarus, Romania and Uzbekistan.

The IWF said that the Russian heavy athletics federation will be removed for a year in the event of a doping test from the Olympic Games of 2008 and 2012 three or more positive tests for prohibited drugs among Russian athletes. Thus, Russian belgists may not be allowed before the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro. Earlier, doping tests "in" Russian weightlifters of Marina Shainova and Nadezhda Evstyukhina, taken at the 2008 games, gave a positive result . Doping industry of another Russian dagger Akti Aukhadov from the 2012 Olympics also gave a positive result. But the announcement of the result of his doping tests "B" is expected later.

On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee supported the decision of the International Association of athletics federations on the extension of sanctions against Russian athletes. “Each international Federation must decide on the acceptability of the speeches of these athletes on an individual basis in order to ensure equal conditions in their sport. When deciding, the absence of positive national testing for doping should not be sufficient. This means that other reliable adequate testing systems should be taken into account in addition to the National,” the IOC said.

The IOC doubled the budget to the pre-Olympic doping testing program for the game-206 in Rio de Janeiro. Samples saved from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games will be especially carefully checked.

IOC President Thomas Bach emphasized that IAAF should make a decision on the admission of athletes of Russia and Kenya individually. "Russian athletes admitted to the games will take part in them, as members of the Russian team, the Russian Olympic Committee," Bach noted. This means that they will speak under the Russian flag.

On Monday, the President of the World Anti -Doping Agency Craig Ridi said that WADA, together with the International Swimming Federation, began an investigation into the use of doping by members of the Russian swimming team . The same check is carried out in relation to Chinese swimmers.