WADA and flame

The World Anti-Doping Agency called on to remove Russian athletes from any international competitions, including the 2016 Olympics. This was stated by the official representative of WADA Ben Nichols.

"WADA appears to the sports movement to ban Russian athletes to participate in international competitions, including the Olympics in Rio, until" the culture does not change, "Nichols wrote on Twitter. He emphasized that the systematic use of doping in 30 visas of sports means that the presumption of innocence cannot be applied." Russian system. Doping control is in question, ”said the representative of WADA.

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 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. "

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 Yuri 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.

The investigation was initiated by statements by the former head of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory of Rodchenkov. On May 13, The New York Times published a material in which Rodchenkov accused dozens of Russian athletes of using doping, including 15 medalists. According to him, this was part of a state program carefully planned over the years. The goal was to ensure dominance at the games of Russian athletes.

The ex-director of the laboratory admitted that he developed three mixtures from the forbidden drugs that he mixed with alcohol and gave athletes. Doping was used by some leaders of the Russian Olympic team. Among them are 14 liners and two members of the bobslei team, which eventually won gold medals.

Russian anti-doping experts and special services replaced the doping tests of the Russian national team at “clean” samples taken a few months before the Olympic competitions, Rodchenkov said. By the end of the games, about 100 urine samples were replaced.

Mutko then called the published information absurd . According to him, Rodchenkov is an “offended person” who “can say anything”. Mutko advised the concerned purity of Russian sports.

However, a few days later Mutko performed in The Sunday Times with a column, in which he asked not to deprive Russia of participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He also apologized for Russian athletes convicted of doping, and assured that "we are ashamed of them."

On July 10, it became known that IAAF refused to all Russian athletes , with the exception of Daria Klisina, in admission to participate in the August Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro and other international competitions. IAAF also considered the applications of 135 Russian athletes who declared their non -involvement in violation of anti -doping rules. However, all of them were rejected, including the application received from the jump with the pole of Elena Isinbaeva.

On Sunday, it became known that anti -doping agencies of at least 10 countries of the world, as well as over 20 federations of athletics, achieve the removal of Russia from the Olympics in Rio . Among the countries whose agencies insist on such an extent - the USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Spain. An appeal to the IOC will be sent on Monday, after the publication of the final report of WADA on the State Doping Program of Russia.