President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach should follow suit Richard McLaren and to call for the admission of Russian athletes to international tournaments, the honorary president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) told Alexander Zhukov .
Earlier, the head of the independent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission investigating the 2014 Olympics doping scandal case, McLaren, in an interview with Sportschau, called for the admission Russian athletes at international competitions.
Did he really say that? Isn’t that wrong? Zhukov responded with a laugh. – I did not expect such statements from McLaren. The thesis “Sport is outside politics” still has not lost its relevance, although, of course, it has been violated lately. Now we can agree with McLaren’s statement. Obviously, Russian athletes should be allowed to participate in international competitions. Now we wait for Bach to say such words. I hope the IOC will change its position,” Zhukov said.
In 2016, McLaren wrote a report in which he stated that in Russia there was a state system that manipulated doping samples and covered up athletes. In 2017, Vitaly Smirnov, who headed the Independent Public Anti-Doping Commission, said McLaren had dropped allegations of state support for Russian doping.
Source : MatchTV
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