The head of Rusada recognized the existence of a doping system in the country

The acting head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) Anna Anzeliovich recognized the existence of a doping system in the country. According to The New York Times, according to her, "it was an institutional conspiracy." At the same time, Antzeliovich emphasized that representatives of the country's top leadership did not participate in it.

I.O. The head of Rusada added that she was shocked when she found out about it. According to the publication, this is the first time that Russian officials recognize the presence of a Russian doping program.

The head of the independent public anti -doping commission of the Russian Olympic Committee, Vitaly Smirnov, also spoke about “many made mistakes” in an interview with the publication. "As a former Minister of Sports and as the president of the Olympic Committee, I believe that we made many mistakes," he said.

At the same time, Smirnov noted that he did not meet with most persons mentioned in the report of the expert of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Richard McLaren, although he knows that all those who appeared in the investigation were subsequently fired. "We must find the reasons why young athletes take doping why they agree to this," the ex -minister said.

The publication does not give the names of other people who agreed to an interview with athletes and officials.

In the Kremlin, in response to the publication, they stated that they did not relate to the "confessions" by Antzeliovich as the source. “We need to check the reliability of these words until we can say anything,” said Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

“How much it is true, how valid the words are that it (Antzeliovich. - Ed.) Are attributed to what was meant, in what context - all this needs to be understood in order to draw some conclusions,” the official emphasized.

He added that Russia from the very beginning denied any involvement of the state and state bodies in the possible use of doping by athletes. According to him, the Kremlin expects the results of the investigation on these facts, which is also suspected of WADA informant Grigory Rodchenkov.

In Rusada, in turn, they stated that the words of Antseliovich were distorted and torn from context . "During the conversation, Anceliovich with the journalist Rebecca Ruzi, the acting director, was made a remark that in the report published on December 9, 2016, Richard McLaren refused the words" state doping system "and used the phrase" institutional conspiracy ", thus excluding the possible involvement of the highest leadership of the country. Unfortunately, Rebecca Ruz, Tearing these words from the context, I gave the impression that the leadership of Rusada recognizes the presence of an institutional diagram of doping in Russia, ”TASS quotes the statement.

Last Friday it became known that the International Olympic Committee will double -ruble all the samples of Russian athletes who performed at the games in Sochi, London and Vancouver. 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.

Prior to this, the International Sports Federation temporarily suspended six members of the Russian national ski team from international competitions, and the Russian Biathlonist Union was forced to abandon the World Cup stage in Tyumen , as well as the youth world of the 2017 World Cup in the city of the Pskov Region.

Earlier, the press service of the International Federation of Bobsleya and Skeleton reported that the 2017 World Cup for these sports was moved from Sochi to Germany . Competitions will accept the city of Koenigzee.

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.