Distracted reaction

President Vladimir Putin promised to temporarily suspend officials mentioned in the report of the commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency on the substitution of doping industry of Russian athletes at the Sochi Olympics. This was reported by the Kremlin press service.

"The officials named in the report of the commission as direct executors will be temporarily suspended from his position until the investigation is completely completed," the president said. Putin also asked WADA to transfer the existing information to Russian law enforcement agencies conducting the investigation. He promised that this work "would be brought to the end with the subsequent adoption of comprehensive measures to prevent violations of Russian legislation and the international obligations taken by our country."

At the same time, Putin doubted the conclusions of the commission based on statements by the former head of the Moscow anti -doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov. "Accusations against Russian athletes are built on the testimony of one person. A person with a scandalous reputation," the president said. He recalled that a criminal case has been opened against Rodchenkov in Russia.

Putin compared the current situation with the boycott of the West of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and the refusal of the USSR and its allies to participate in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

“Now we are observing the dangerous relapse of the policy of politics in the sport. Yes, the forms of such intervention have changed, but the essence is the same: to make sport an instrument of geopolitical pressure, the formation of a negative image of countries and peoples. The Olympic movement plays a colossal unifying role for humanity, may again be on the verge of a split,” Putin said.

According to the president, in Russia they are conducting a consistent fight against doping. "Russia understands the enormous significance and creative power of the Olympic movement well and completely shares the values ​​of Olympism: mutual respect, solidarity, justice, the spirit of friendship and cooperation," Putin noted.

On Monday evening, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order to temporarily remove the deputy minister of sports Yuri Nagorny until the completion of the official audit in connection with a doping scandal.

On Monday, the head of the WADA independent commission Richard McLaren presented the results of the investigation. From them it follows that the time of the Olympiad in Sochi, the Russian Ministry of Sports controlled and initiated manipulations with doping tests with the active participation of the FSB, as well as the Moscow and Sochi laboratory.

"The investigation lasted 57 days, and I am proud that we were able to meet such a short time. We started an investigation after Grigory Rodchenkov announced the manipulations with doping tests at the Sochi Olympics, as well as other violations of anti -doping legislation," the head of the commission said said

The doping program supported by the state has existed at least since 2010, the WADA investigation showed. She began to develop after the Olympics in Vancouver and lasted at least until August 2015.

"Our team found that the facts of doping -test replacements in Sochi took place without a doubt. FSB officers took part in these operations," Maklaren said. According to him, fraud was carried out by replacing containers in urine. “Those who did this managed to imperceptibly hack the packaging of standard containers used at all international competitions,” the WADA representative said. “We discovered traces of scratches in the inside of all 11 studied containers.”

The deputy minister of sports of the Nagorny was directly related to the substitution of the samples, McLaren said.

According to McLaren, there is no doubt that doping in Russia is used in a large number of sports, including in summer and winter views. However, he will not recommend removing the Russian national team from the Olympics, as this is not included in its authority.

After that, WADA called on to remove Russian athletes from any international competitions, including the 2016 Olympics. "WADA appeals to the sports movement to ban Russian athletes to participate in international competitions, including the Olympics in Rio, until" the culture does not change, "WADA Ben Nichols wrote on Twitter that the systematic use of doping in 30 visas means that the presumption of innocence cannot be applied. “The Russian doping control system is in question,” said WADA representative.

The head of the World Anti -Doping Agency Craig Reidies demanded the resignation of the Minister of Sports of Russia Vitaly Mutko, TASS reports . In addition, WADA appeals to the Ethics Committee of the International Football Federation with an appeal to study the role played by a member of the FIFA Mutko Executive Committee in the doping system of Russia.

"In the shortest perspective, the IOC Executive Council will hold a telephone conference and will make the first decisions tomorrow, which may include temporary measures and sanctions on the 2016 Olympic Games," said the President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach. - The conclusions from the report show what an unprecedented and shocking attack was carried out on the integrity of sports and the Olympic Games. The IOC will not hesitate to accept the most stringent sanctions against any imposed person or organization. "