Doping
Mutko: “the Olympic exclusion unfair”
Russia’s sports Minister Vitaly Mutko apologised to the doping offences of his country. In the Sunday Times, he adopts a position with regard to the Doping allegations by Russian athletes. A Olympia-he doesn’t want to.
Russia is braced against the impending Olympics in Rio. Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko revealed in a guest post for the English newspaper Sunday Times “very sad” about the Doping-cheating athletes from his country. He stressed, however, that he athletes think an Olympic-exclusion of the Russian easy for “unfair and disproportionate”. Thus, athletes would be punished, which would have gained is never an advantage by Doping. “In other areas of life, such a thing would not happen,” he wrote. Mutko made the athletes, coaches and the athletics Federation RUSAF responsible for the problems. This would have made “serious errors”. “To say it very clearly: We’re ashamed of,” wrote Mutko: “we are sorry that we have not transferred athletes have tried to cheat us and the world, sooner.”
Serious allegations against the Russian Team
Fight against Doping: Gregori Rodtschenkow
The former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping laboratory, Gregori Rodtschenkow, was charged on Thursday in the New York Times, made serious accusations against the Russian Team during the Olympic winter games of 2014 in Sochi. Rodtschenkow language of a state-run doping system, dozens of Russian athletes, including at least 15 medal winners, are doped to be at the Start.
Mutko pointed out in his guest contribution to the fact that it was a “global problem of Doping”, not only a Russian one. So Kenya have adopted in the past few weeks, an Anti-Doping law, and in China, the Doping had been suspended-control lab in Beijing. In addition, there have been TV reports about Doping in the United Kingdom and the United States. Russia have done everything that had been requested by the athletics world governing body IAAF for a lifting of the suspension.
“It would be unjust to demand Changes and measures, with a view to punish Russia’s athletes,” said Mutko. “We will do everything possible to ensure that our athletes are part of a clean, fair and exciting Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro,” said the sports Minister.
tk/og (sid, dpa)