World Anti-Doping Agency: Russia urged to admit state-sponsored doping

  21 November 2016    Read: 1054
World Anti-Doping Agency: Russia urged to admit state-sponsored doping
World Anti-Doping Agency officials have urged Russia to admit to state-sponsored doping in a bid to regain the rest of the sporting world`s trust, AzVision.az reports citing BBC sport.
Former Russian sports minister Vitaly Smirnov, head of Russia`s anti-doping commission, said it has never conducted a state-sponsored doping programme.

Wada pushed for a complete ban on Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee decided instead to leave the decision to individual sports federations.

It came after an independent report found evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping in Russia in the lead up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.

At Sunday`s foundation board meeting in Glasgow, Wada announced that the second part of the independent report, compiled by Professor Richard McLaren, is to be released on 9 December.

Sir Craig Reedie, who has been re-elected as Wada president for a second three-year term, said he was confident Wada was "making progress" with Russia.

"The facts are that the McLaren commission indicated that there had been breaches of the code involving the Moscow lab and the ministry of sport," said the 75-year-old Scot.

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