The World Anti‑Doping Agency's executive board wants the International Olympic Committee to ban all Russian teams from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
The World Anti‑Doping Agency issued a seven‑point list of requests after it published a report which confirmed claims of state‑backed Russian cheating at the Sochi Olympics and beyond.
An investigator looking into Russian doping found the country's state‑directed cheating program resulted in at least 312 falsified results and lasted from 2011 through at least last year's world swimming championships.
The investigator, Richard McLaren, dubbed Russia's program the disappearing positive methodology.
McLaren says allegations made by Moscow's former anti‑doping lab director about sample switching at the Sochi Olympics went much as described in a New York Times story in May.
He says the program involved dark‑of‑night switching of dirty samples with clean ones, it prevented Russian athletes from testing positive.
But McLaren, whose report went public this morning, says Russia's cheating also included the 2013 track world championships in Moscow and the 2015 swimming world championships in Kazan.
Russia's Deputy Minister of Sports will direct lab workers which positive samples to send through and which to hold back.
The World Anti‑Doping Agency also wants Russian government officials to be denied access to international competitions, including the upcoming Olympics.
The anti‑doping watchdog also calls on world governing bodies of sports implicated in the inquiry report to consider action against Russian national bodies.
Source : nzherald.co
