
The International Olympic Committee will double -check all the samples of Russian athletes who performed at the games in Sochi, London and Vancouver. This is stated in the message posted on the IOC website.
In addition, the Committee opened disciplinary affairs against 28 Russian athletes who participated in the 2014 Games in Sochi. "Richard McLaren investigated 95 images of Russian athletes who provided him with the IOC. The samples of 28 athletes have signs of manipulation. Now they were transferred to the laboratory in Lausanne, their repeated analysis has already begun," the release says.
The IOC emphasized that all cases were not instituted in connection with the adverse results of doping tests. "At the moment, these 28 new cases are not based on positive doping tests, however, manipulations with them can lead to sanctions against athletes," the press release said.
At the same time, the Committee will not publish the names of the Russian participants of the 2014 OI, which is an investigation.
Also on Friday it became known that the International Sports Federation temporarily suspended six members of the Russian national race from international competitions. The organization noted that the decision is related to the investigation of the alleged violations of anti-doping rules during the 2014 Winter Olympiad in Sochi. The names of athletes are also not indicated.
On the eve of the Russian Biathlon Union refused to hold the World Cup stage in Tyumen , as well as the 2017 youth World Cup in the city of the island of the Pskov region. On Thursday, at a meeting of IBU, it was decided to open an official investigation against 29 Russian biathletes mentioned in the second part of the report of the head of the Independent Commission of the World Anti -Doping Agency Richard McLaren, as well as in relation to the Biathlonists of Russia.
In addition, two Russian biathletes, whose names are not called, have already been removed from the competition of violations at the Olympics in Sochi.
On Monday, the press service of the International Bobsleya and Skeleton Federation reported that the 2017 World Cup for these sports was moved from Sochi to Germany . Competitions will accept the city of Koenigzee.
After that, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov called the decision "extremely politicized", adding that it "proceeds from statements that do not have sufficient justification."
On December 9, Canadian lawyer McLaren presented the second part of the report prepared for WADA. The investigation showed that over 1,000 Russian athletes in almost 30 types of Olympic and Paralympic sports were involved in the doping program of Russia.