Soon to be banned all the Russian athletes in international competitions? It’s possible, because Russia is even more stubborn in the work-up of his Doping affair.
The sports world is waiting to Meet the world Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at the 14./15. January. The WADA Committee to decide on new disciplinary measures against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). Because the Russians WADA to 31. December access to data from the Moscow analysis in the laboratory (Laboratory Information Management system, LIMS) will grant. Now the Ultimatum has expired.
The requirement is for about three years, after it became known that in Russia, there were massive Doping, particularly during the winter games in Sochi. Meanwhile, Moscow has focused on the offences in part, but really little has happened since then.
Now just to re-lock the RUSADA non-threatening. Also, all of the Russian athletes could be excluded from international competitions. This Worst-Case-scenario describes RUSADA Director Yuri Ganu’s in the DW-Interview: “On the Athletes destinies of the whole country. And the athletes are nervous, believe me.”
Russia is arguing about his attitude towards the WADA
RUSADA CEO Ganu’s claims that he was cooperating with WADA, but it is powerless. He has the debt for the Russian failures: “The data should be handed over to the Anti-Doping laboratory LIMS. This is an independent organization that is not subject to RUSADA. But we are depending on the results,” stresses Ganu’s.
Washes his hands in innocence: RUSADA-in-chief Yury Ganus
The official statement from the Russian side: The data transfer was not so easy. First of all, the technical equipment of the WADA-control had to be certified in your according to the Russian legislation, because the data were already at the Russian investigative Committee.
In a last-resort action, as he himself says, has turned to Yuri Ganu, at the end of December in a public video message to Vladimir Putin. The Message: The Russian President may interfere, please, and ensure that the WADA officials samples get the access to the Moscow laboratory analysis and the storage of data and Doping-but in the nick of time. That was the most important requirement of WADA to grant a pardon to the RUSADA in September 2018, surprisingly, and lift the suspension.
“I am bitterly disappointed that the data transfer is not effected within the period of time,” said WADA President Craig Reedie. He stressed that the world Anti-Doping Agency “would have ever” worked with the Russian authorities, in order to meet the deadline. Of the necessary certification, the five-member Delegation of the WADA was not informed prior to your visit, claims Creedie.
International lack of understanding of the WADA
That Russia had the WADA-Ultimatum elapsed, triggered in many of the sports associations of outrage and criticism. So the German Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for the re-suspension of the Russian colleagues: “For the protection of clean athletes worldwide, and for doping-free Sport this clear positioning of the WADA is essential.”
Massive Doping allegations: Russian athletes at the opening of the Olympic winter games of 2014 in Sochi
Together with the NADA 16 national Anti-Doping have been reported to agencies. Ask WADA, “without delay” a decision, that is, without waiting for the Meeting in mid-January. “Russia has not fulfilled the requirements. After more than three years of Review, indecision and compromise as the answer to the biggest doping scandal in the history it is now time that neither an individual nor a Nation by the world Anti-Doping is the exception Code”, it says so in the joint Declaration made by the NADO group.
Reaction from the IOC do not need to fear Russia
While the response of the WADA is not yet in sight, signaled to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it would impose no further sanctions against Russia, Ultimatum or not. “The Russian Olympic Committee has served the sanction,” said the German IOC President Thomas Bach in his new year message. What is meant is the lock of the Russian team at the Games in South Korea in 2018.
Remains relaxed: Russia’s Minister of sport Pavel Kolobkow
Only the world athletics Federation (IAAF) remains, so far, consistently taking a hard line against Russia. He maintains the suspension of Russia since 2015 and has extended the lock at the beginning of December again. This decision is not unfounded, confirmed Yuri Ganu’s the DW. As in January 2018 RUSADA-inspectors, unannounced, visited a track and field competition in the Russian Irkutsk, he says, “were 36 Russian sportsmen at once sick, once you have heard of Doping samples”. But you need the support of the Russian state in the fight against Doping, so Ganu’s.
Moscow is settled
Moscow is shown to be unimpressed. The Russian sports Minister Pavel Kolobkow expressed optimism: The “technical” Details are discussed “with the investigative Committee” and there is already talk about a new visit to the WADA Delegation. In Moscow suggests that you can avoid the suspension by cooperating quickly with the WADA.
The RUSADA would be locked again, or even the Russian athletes in international competitions, exiled, were “baseless Worries” of the RUSADA Director, commented the press Secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov.