Triumph with the background

Reveling in victories in Euro -players in Minsk, sports Russia tried not to notice how clouds of doping scandals are gathering over it

At the finish line of the Eurogre, the Russians rolled with indicators that significantly overwhelmed the planned task. Before the last day, a beautiful round number of won medals became a coveted target, and the cherished hundred submitted directly in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin who arrived in Minsk.

Not so joyful leading a different nature in June spent sparingly, and did not bother the public. They reassured her in the usual way. When the All -Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) once again refused to restore status, on one of the federal channels, the news story was released in the doping history of the news story. The authors were indignant at the actions of the “inquisitors” who continue to bend their sanctions line, despite the fact that Russia has long fulfilled all the conditions. The arguments were naive to ridiculous, the facts were overstrained or simply ignored, the pathos was directed exclusively at external “enemies”.

Literally a few days later, messages about the next high -profile disqualifications fell by a series, as well as a scandal erupted, during which the “enemies” of the internal could be exposed already. It is even strange that our sensitive propagandists have not yet been excited. Either the instructions were not received, or there was nothing to cover.

... The scream of the soul of the best Russian athlete Maria Lasitzkene could not go unnoticed. She called on to leave everyone involved in the “endless shame” related to the continuing poorness of the “Queen of Sports”:

“Talk that the whole world is sitting at doping are inappropriate. There is no need to save the whole world, it is necessary to save what remains of Russian athletics. ”

For three years, Dmitry Shlyakhtin, the head of the WFLA, is engaged in the restoration of status, for his part, he realized this as a collision exclusively on himself and his team. The performance before athletes in Novogorsk was not intended for the press, but it turned out to be quickly replicated. If Maria made claims, including the leadership of the federation, it means that she does not agree with those positive changes that the new authorities and embodies with the support of the International Association of athletics Federations (IAAFs). Accordingly, the strongest jump in the world may lose its neutral status and the ability to perform at the international level. The shot turned out to be idle - to punish the main star of the "Diamond League" only for the expressed opinion, of course, no one was going to.

Shlyakhtin, alas, did not stop: “Now these two or three months are very important from the point of view of culture ... We must show them that the culture has changed. What are we doing?

We are wetting the federation! Complete program! We do not know how to do anything else! Let's soak her! And we roll out, and another will come, and everything will be fine! ”

If you remove the understandable emotion of the crisis manager, then in the dry remnant it remains to “show them”, that is, international sports and anti -doping organizations that Russia not only corrected the situation in athletics, but also changed the culture - with supposedly doping to anti -doping. The word "show" the key here.

Yes, they would be happy to believe, because everyone really got an endless story with Russian doping. Although in Russia and in the world they perfectly understand that the most merciless struggle will not change the brain. The serious efforts of the new leadership of the WFLA to fulfill the roadmap necessary to restore the status of a roadmap could really be successful if ...

If it were not for the fake medical certificate of the jump in the height of Danil Lysenko, who received a fateful third warning at the end of the summer last year. If IAAF did not confirm that individuals for life -long disqualified experts, in particular, Vladimir Kazarin, continue to work with athletes, and even elite ones. Finally, if the Russian anti-doping agency at this very moment did not declare an investigation into violations of the anti-doping rules in the medical and physical education institution of the capital of Chuvashia Cheboksary: ​​more than 30 open cases of violations, and as many more preparing for production.

This is not all. But it is enough to understand the emotion of Lasitzkene, a certain confusion of Dmitry Shlyakhtin, and the tough position of the head of the Rusad, the head of the Rusad’s rights, Yuri Ganus.

... Yuri Ganus has a difficult situation. The status of Rusad was restored in September, for its confirmation, Russia was paid a difficult price - having fulfilled the last condition for the transfer of the database of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory, the prospect of opening hundreds of new affairs loomed before the country. Rusada gave guarantees, at least in words that individual cases of old violations will not affect the participation of Russia in the upcoming Tokyo Olympiad.

But a rehabilitated agency must keep a very high level of intransigence, confirming their independence and impartiality with every step. Therefore, the “Chuvash history”, as well as the fundamental position of the Rusad in certain actions of the leadership of WFL, caused, gently, an ambiguous reaction. Well, we are not used to the removal of litter from the hut, and even at the wrong moment.

But it will directly mean “to run” on Ganus that Rusada is under pressure from the state structures, and this again threatens with deprivation of status.

The explanations that the Russada gave in the “Chuvash case”, on the one hand, became a blow to the position of patriots-guards, on the other, they confirmed that the agency was really trying, and not without success, to act according to the law. At the Medical Center at the Sports School, athletes were not stuffed with doping, but there they used the prohibited volume of intravenous infusion. That is, not prohibited drugs were administered, but more often and not in permissible volumes. Representatives of a variety of sports (in athletes - 17 cases), including minors. They experimented, and in the midst of a doping scandal-the first Ruda raid recorded the application of prohibited methods in April 2017. As the agency will later comment, there was a manifestation of "carelessness, irresponsibility and ignorance."

Not in such ancient times, the incident would be quietly furious, but not this time. The act generally fell under a criminal article, but at first the case was closed behind the lack of corpus delicti, and the second attempt ended in the same way - due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. This only added a Mermaid determination to publish shocking results.

... The news of the 4-year disqualification of biathlonists Alexander Pechenkin and Alexander Chernoshov with a thunder in the middle of the clear sky. They were not caught on doping, but the records of the cursory leader of the Moscow anti -doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov were, according to Vada, confirmed by the transferred database. The aggravating circumstance was "participating in an organized doping scheme." Pechenkin, who had successes at the junior level, but did not go too far at the adult, refused to appeal and decided to end his career. According to the Olympic champions, Svetlana Sleptsova and Evgenia Ustyugov, whose business was in the same bunch with these two, has not yet been issued.

Yes, little good. Closed in the forbidden cooperation with a ragun, a Begun, Artem Denmukhametov, was removed from the competition. 37 athletes out of 119 are denied a neutral status. The affairs of the ex-head of WFLA Valentina Balakhnichev and coach Alexander Melnikov will be considered in Paris in connection with the possible involvement in the crimes of the former head of the IAAF Lamin Diack, accused of corruption and extortion.

Vada informs of the opening of more than a hundred cases against Russian athletes on the basis of analysis of the database of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory and their reconciliation with previously received data, emphasizing that this is only the first wave. And let the exposures, according to Wada, will not lead to new collective sanctions, but it seems that the rehabilitation of Russian athletics in September does not have to wait again.

In the meantime, we are offered to rejoice at the “triumph brought by athletes” (quote from a news story on Channel One) on the second euro -players in Minsk: 109 medals, of which 44 gold. Vladimir Putin appreciated the performance of the Russians with the words “very cool, beautiful and impressive”, attended the closure ceremony, and met with the president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach. The parties exchanged compliments and, judging by the television, did not affect the painful things.

This does not mean that the topics have disappeared.