Stubborn awards

Russian athletes, deprived of doping of Olympic medals, do not want to return them voluntarily. This was stated by the president of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov, Interfax reports .

"A few athletes agree to return the Olympic medals," Zhukov said. He noted that the OKR at the request of the International Olympic Committee is working on the return of medals by the Russians.

The day before, it became known that the sports arbitration court in Lausanne announced the four-year disqualification of the Russian runner Maria Savinova-Farnosova. In addition, the athlete is deprived of the gold medal of the 2012 Olympics in 800 m. This is the eighth medal of games in London, which Russia is deprived of samples taken in 2012.

At the end of January, the IOC deprived two silver medals of the Olympics in Beijing by Russian athletics Tatyana Lebedev after re-checking her 2008 doping industry. The sample also found Turinabol. Thus, Russia has already been deprived of 13 medals of the 2008 games.

On December 9, Canadian lawyer Richard 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. After that, the IOC announced the start of the investigation against 28 Russian athletes participating in the Games in Sochi.

On December 31, in the New Year's appeal, the head of the IOC Thomas Bach said that the International Olympic Committee would take additional measures to combat doping after studying the McLaren report. Bach called the conclusions of this document "shocking." According to the head of the IOC, in 2016 there was a threat of the Olympic movement, and the IOC intends to resist this threat. "The most actual threat is presented in a shocking McLaren report regarding doping and doping manipulations in Russia. These data caused damage to the reputation and integrity of sports. We created two commissions that are engaged in this issue. They will give all the parties a chance to be heard, after which the IOC will make a decision on further measures and sanctions," the head of the IOC said.

All 254 urine samples taken from Russian athletes in Sochi, as well as all samples from the 2012 London Olympiad, will be checked in the IOC. "These additional measures are only fair for the authority of the Olympic Games and for the mental peace of the athletes," the head of the IOC noted.