The money did not go through a doping test

The World Anti -Doping Agency refused to accept 300 thousand dollars from Russia as financial support for the organization. This was reported by Iinsidethegames, which led the broadcast of the meeting of the Council of Founders WADA.

“Given what happened, this was a right decision,” said Francesco Ricci -Bitti, head of the financial commission of the organization.

Since 2002, WADA annually receives funds in equal shares from the International Olympic Committee and state authorities of different countries of the world. However, at present, the Russian anti -doping agency (Rusada) is deprived of WADA accreditation.

At a meeting of the Council of founders WADA, the report was heard by Vitaly Smirnov, the chairman of the independent Russian commission for the reform of Rusad. "Although a certain progress has been achieved, there are a number of problems with the Russian anti -doping program, which must be solved in order to restore the correspondence of the Russada to WADA standards," the press release said in the meeting.

On November 10, 2015, the activities of the Moscow Anti -Doping Center were suspended in connection with the investigation of WADA on the mass use of doping in Russia. In April, WADA annulled the accreditation of the Moscow Anti-Doping Center due to non-compliance with the international standard for laboratories (ISL) and related technical documents.

On July 18, the independent WADA commission, led by Richard McLaren, presented a report on the results of the investigation of accusations of doping fraud at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. The report states that the method of replacing doping tests in Russia was used in 643 cases from 2012 to 2015, and athletes from 30 sports were involved in the system.

On July 24, the International Olympic Committee left decisions on the admission of a Russian athlete to the Games in Rio de Janeiro at the discretion of the international federations of specific sports . At the same time, the Russian team as a whole was not disqualified. The athletes admitted to the games performed under the Russian flag. By the time of the opening of the Olympiad , 271 Russian athlete was allowed for the games. Later satisfied the applications of several more Russians

On August 7, the International Paralympic Committee, based on the McLaren report, disqualified the Russian Paralympic Committee and removed Russian athletes from participating in the 2016 games. Later it became known that this decision applies to the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang.