
On Tuesday, the names of a number of Russian Paralympicians mentioned in the report of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) under the leadership of Richard McLaren, on the basis of which the entire Russian team were not allowed to the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, were published.
This is a six-time champion of games-2014 in Sochi Roman Petushkov, a two-time Paralympic champion Svetlana Konovalova, a two-time Paralympic champion Rushan Minnegulov and a two-time paralympic champion Vladislav Lekomtsev.
According to the Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, damage was discovered on their doping tests.
Four athletes who are part of the coach Irina Gromova decided to publicly declare their innocence.
According to the whole sport agency, information on ten Russian Paralympicians, which are mentioned in the McLaren report, were transferred to the Russian Paralympic Committee (PCR) on August 22 during a hearing in the sports arbitration court (CAS). For unknown reasons, the PCR informed the athletes about this in more than three weeks - September 13.
“At the moment, they were informed about this fact and asked for explanatory ones. We also took a number of legal actions so that the guys could protect their good names,” said sports agent Andrei Mitkov.
As TASS specified by lawyer Artem Patsev, representing the interests of the Paralympicians, the official request was sent to the company for the production of athletes to establish facts of opening athletes to establish the facts of opening athletes to the company of paralympic production for doping industry.
“They must give their conclusion whether there was an autopsy,” said Patsev. “On average, the answer may come within a month. The point is that no events have yet begun. There are no procedures against the Paralympicians.”
Recall that the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on August 7 disqualified the PCR and removed all Russian athletes from participating in the 2016 Paralympic Games on the basis of mentioning some of them in McLaren's report.