Doping
IOC historical decision
The IOC makes a decision on a Complete exclusion of Russia from the Olympics until at least Sunday. All around there seething. President Thomas Bach and co. are under huge pressure.
The first Olympic-exclusion of a country because of the state of doping in the space, the pressure from all sides is enormous, and the clock is ticking mercilessly. According to the Russian athletes for the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, the IOC and President Thomas Bach (picture) will make a historical decision. The alternatives are many: the complete banishment or exclusion with loopholes. A Start under the Olympic flag or the Russian Flag is conceivable. The opening ceremony at the legendary Maracana stadium rises in just two weeks.
Because it seems strange that the powerful IOC Executive after the confirmation of the exclusion of the athletes by the International sports court CAS, two full days into the country. On Sunday, the eleven gentlemen and four ladies together again in a telephone conference. Previously well-operated back-room diplomacy. When the decision is announced, it is unclear that the IOC”government” has set itself a deadline of Tuesday.
Again alarming Figures
And into the midst of these Deliberations, the IOC went on Friday with terrifying new Numbers to the Public. In the
the second wave of follow-up examinations of samples of the summer games in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London were transferred to a further 45 athlete. Among these 23 medal winners from Beijing and eight from London.
In the first wave, in may, it had been a total of 53 positive cases (30 Beijing, 23 London), 22 (14/8) were learning of it at the time, of Russian sports. A similar relationship is likely to give it now. The should be really so, this could push the decision even more strongly in one direction.
Opinions and claims
NADA Board member Lars Mortsiefer: “allow exceptions”
Now it all boils down to a Complete lock, or one with loopholes. Spicy be way even from the ranks of the Anti-Doping-hunters, worn in the meantime, both loans and advances to Bach. During the
World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA, wants a lock without If and But require 14 national agencies, including the German NADA, in a letter to the IOC chief, a complete ban with exemptions. “But the hurdles need to be high,” said NADA Board member Lars Mortsiefer the SID.
It could only go in the direction that have taken the world athletics Association IAAF, added Mortsiefer. Athletes, who are the last to “come even close” with the Russian control system in contact, “may get no more chances”. So it seems to be well the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), which opened on Friday a process of elimination against the Russian national Association. So Russia threatens to Disabled athletes for the Paralympics in Rio (7. to 18. September).
Hope and activism
The CAS had on Thursday
Objection of 68 Russian dismissed athletes against the lockout by the world Association IAAF. According to the current state only long jumper Darya Klischina that for a long time lives in the United States and trained in Rio to start. The Kremlin now hopes that the IOC has all of his “clean” athletes in Rio to start. This hope is expressed
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday: “We believe that athletes who have not been convicted of doping and not doping are suspected, should have the right to attend the Games.”
Putin himself is the creation of an Anti-Doping-Committee until the 28. July, known. The Committee will be headed by long-time IOC member Vitaly Smirnov. Details of the Committee were not initially known. Support Russia’s head of state received the main, among other things, of
Nobel peace prize winner, Mikhail Gorbachev, who turned in a letter to Bach. “The principle of collective punishment is unacceptable to me”, – stated in the Letter from the former President of the Soviet Union.
Common interests: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) and predecessors Mikhail Gorbachev (archive image)
Warnings and fears
The NADAs are from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Japan, new Zealand, Egypt, Canada and the United States demand that, in the case of approved Russians a Start under a neutral flag. “This has something to do with attitude. Finally, we have to deal here with the state of doping,” says Mortsiefer. A month ago, Bach to the “Olympic Summit” the IAAF in the flags had brakes-a question.
DOSB-President Alfons Hörmann warns the IOC, meanwhile, in its decision from legal Traps, and urges careful preparatory work. “If you are busy with the legal backgrounds, is not much as easy as it seems to the outside,” said Hörmann in the Bavarian broadcasting. Because “the very end” would also draw the Russian athletes, and associations that were affected, “before the court”. And in front of a civil court it might be in doubt, even for the Multi-billion-Dollar-company-IOC painful expensive.
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