The World Anti Doping Agency(WADA)has called for all Russian athletes to be banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil after a 'mind-blowing level of corruption' was unearthed.
Richard McLaren said there were at least 312 falsified results — with the cheating programme thought to have started in 2011.
A
two-month investigation commissioned by WADA has uncovered evidence of
'state-directed, fail-safe' doping throughout Russian Olympic sport.
The
body has now called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to
decline entry to this summer's games for Russian competitors.
President
Craig Reedie, who is also an IOC member, said: 'In the face of such
evidence of state-sponsored subversion of anti-doping processes, WADA
insists upon imposition of the most serious consequences to protect
clean athletes from the scourge of doping in sport.'
The probe
lead by arbitrator Richard McLaren, uncovered a 'mind-blowing level of
corruption within both Russian sport and government', said Travis
Tygart, WADA CEO.
Richard McLaren delivered three main findings at a press conference in Toronto
on Monday July 18,2016 - that doped samples 'disappeared' from the anti-doping
laboratory in Moscow, that they were swapped with clean samples at the
laboratory for the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 and that these plans
were directed by the Russian sports ministry.
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