The Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recommended to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to consider denying the participation of all athletes submitted to the Russian Olympic Committee. The recommendation also applies to the Russians disabled athletes linked to its respective committee. Wada also suggests that access to Russian government officials to Rio 2016 is denied.
The recommendations were made after the release of a report signed by Professor Richard McLaren. He was appointed by the agency to conduct the investigation based on the allegations of the former director of the Moscow Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov on tampering with doping tests to mask the use of substances prohibited by Wada.


In the report, McLaren cites the exchange of samples as a method to hide doping athletes. Samples “clean” were used in place of urine collected from doped athletes. According to investigations, DNA tests showed three samples incompatible with the corresponding athletes.
McLaren also cites another way to circumvent the anti-doping tests, the “positive disappearance methodology”. That’s how he calls the practice of camouflage, in laboratory stage, results of athletes who have not benefited from other fraudulent practices in the early stages, as the sample collection or transport process.
The report states that fraud in anti-doping tests were put in place by the end of 2011 until August 2015 in Russia. In addition, says Russian athletes “a vast majority of summer and winter sports” were benefited by the “methodology of positive disappearance”.
McLaren also says that there was participation of members of the Russian government in the scheme. The Minister of Sport of Russia, as well as government agencies such as the FSB (Federal Security Service of Russia, which replaced the former KGB); and CSP (Training Center Sports for Athletes Russians) were also involved. In addition, McLaren said Russian authorities were aware of the practice by athletes participating in the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
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IOC will meet tomorrow
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued a statement saying it will make a meeting tomorrow (19), by teleconference, “to take the first decisions” about the allegations exposed by Wada. This meeting may leave the first steps to ensure the smooth progress of the Rio 2016 Games.
The IOC President Thomas Bach, also spoke. He called the episode “a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and the Olympic Games” and said the Olympic Committee “will not hesitate to apply the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organization involved.”
Putin comes to politicization of sport
Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized what he called a dangerous resurgence “of politics interfering in the sport.” He said that all leaders accused of involvement in a doping scandal have been suspended from their positions until the investigations are completed.
Rio 2016
In a statement, the Rio 2016 Committee said he supports “the IOC’s zero-tolerance policy towards athletes who seek to cheat through doping” and has “a firm commitment to protect clean athletes. They are the best examples for future generations. We will work hard with the IOC and our partners in our obsession to provide clean Games, delivering full efforts to present the games that Brazilian society and deserves to be inaugurated on August 5 with a magical celebration of sport and transformation. ”