
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and former Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko said that the responsibility for violations by Russian athletes of anti-doping requirements at the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 should be carried out, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency ( WADA ), R-Sport reports.
Mutko said: “ In general, a very beautiful shadow on the waddon has been thrown now. People are so powdered by the brains in that Russia is to blame for everything, that somehow no one remembers the responsibility of WADA or the responsibility of the IOC . ”
According to the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, questions arise for persons whose duties included the collection and storage of doping-tests of athletes: “ We need to ask WADA, who had 22 officials have worked inside the Sochi laboratory. What were they doing there? Slept? 20 doping officers took samples. So check who took doping tests. Who accepted doping test (Alexander) Light? Let him answer why the cover is closed to six “clicks”, and not for 15? All this is from the series that there are no comprehensive data through the fault of athletes, and the conclusions of the commission are nevertheless a priori are correct. ”
Recall that according to the results of the anti-doping investigation, the IOC deprived Russia of six medals of the 2014 Olympiad: four in skiing ( gold about Alexander Legkov at a distance of 50 km, silver about the male team of Russia in the relay of 4 × 10 km, two silver- erane Medali Vylegzhanin at a distance of 50 km and in the command of OM Sprint E ) and two in) Skeleton ( gold about Alexander Tretyakov and Bronze A Elena Nikitina ) .
Elena Vyalbe, President of the Russian Ski Race Federation, said the commission of Denis Oswald, who, on behalf of the IOC, is investigating manipulations with doping tests during the Sochi Olympics, charged two more Russian athletes : skiers of Yulia Chekaleva and Anastasia Dotsenko. Athletes did not won any awards on the 2014 OI-2014, therefore, at any outcome, this investigation does not threaten Russia with deprivation of medals.
However, against this background, a discussion of the possible removal of Russia from participating in the 2018 Olympics, which will be held in South Korean Pyeongchang, was revived. The final decision on this issue will be made at a meeting of the IOC Executive Committee on December 5.
Vitaly Mutko is convinced that it’s not worth waiting for a good thing: “ There is no need to wait for anything. You see what is happening. A certain illusion of a large conspiracy, conspiracy is being created, although there is no conspiracy. ”
The Russian channels, meanwhile, reported that it was not a bunch to broadcast OI-2018 if Russia would not be allowed to participate in games.