
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) received a database of doping industry results from Russian athletes from January 2012 to August 2015, according to the agency’s website. The organization received new data at the end of October.
The WADA has at the disposal of the database of the Moscow Anti -Doping Center. As specifies The New York Times, the agency received information about the doping tests of Russians through unofficial channels.
New data will help to strengthen the pressure on the Russian authorities so that they publicly recognize the conclusions of the expert of the organization Robert McLaren, said WADA President Craig Ridi. According to Redi, this will contribute to the "restoration of trust in Russian sports."
In addition to recognizing manipulations with doping tests in WADA, they require the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) to provide experts at the organization of urine athletes stored in the Moscow Agency Laboratory. Rusada refuses to do this, referring to the ongoing federal investigation.
It is reported that now WADA experts continue to analyze the data. The conclusions of specialists will be presented at meetings of the Executive Committee and the Council of the founders of WADA, which will be held on November 15 and 16 in Seoul.
The World Anti -Doping Agency has already informed about the received database of the Special Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the leadership of Denis Oswald and Samuel Schmid, who investigate the use of doping by Russian participants in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014 and the possible concealment of Russian doping violations of athletes.
As expected, at the end of December, the IOC must announce a decision regarding Russia's participation in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korean Pyeongchang.
On December 9, 2016, 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. WADA requires from
On February 25, WADA stated that the insufficient number of evidence in the report of the McLaren commission is explained by the destruction of many doping industry of Russian athletes . “Unfortunately, many samples were disposed of by the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory, which means that they cannot be double -checked,” the statement said. “McLaren made additional requests to the Russian authorities, but they remained unanswered. There are simply no evidence from the McLaren report. The anti -doping community should clearly realize that it can not be obtained and that it cannot be obtained based on, based report ".
On September 13, it became known that WADA removed the accusations of doping from 95 Russian athletes from the McLaren report.
On November 8, the Investigative Committee said that the Russian investigation refuted the conclusions of the McLaren report, and the possible cases of using doping athletes "were purely individual."