President of Moka Bach: We will introduce sanctions against Russia for a doping program in the fall

Russia will not escape sanctions for its doping program. According to The New York Times, this was stated by the president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach before his meeting with US President Donald Trump, held on Tuesday.

Bach agreed that after the broken scandal, the Russian authorities, trying to avoid large -scale sanctions, do a lot of work to prevent doping athletes in the future. However, despite this, Russia cannot be completely avoided, the President of the MOK assured.

“By our impression, some in Russia expects that if he is engaged in the prevention of future problems, the past will be forgotten,” Bach remarked. “We must not forget what happened in Sochi (at the 2014 Olympics. - Ed.). We made it clear: for what happened there should follow the punishment.”

How serious the sanctions will be, Bach did not specify. With this issue, he explained, two MOK commissions are engaged, and the work has not yet been completed. “In order to impose sanctions, we must find out how deep the roots of the manipulation system took,” said Nyt interlocutor.

However, Bach assured, the decision will be made in the latest in October.

Earlier in June, notes the publication, Vladimir Putin ordered the recommendations of the public anti -doping commission created on his instructions. “We see,” Bach remarked about this, “that, on the one hand, the Russian president says: yes, we had a problem, and we must admit it. On the other hand, some government officials and deputies try to ignore everything.”

In mid -May, the Council of Founders of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) deprived the Russian anti -doping agency of the right to independently test athletes until November this year. One of the requirements of WADA was the dismissal of the Olympic champion Elena Ishimbaeva from the post of chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rusad. This requirement was later fulfilled.