“McLaren implied that it was necessary to obtain admission of Russian athletes via CAS” – Svishchev

Teacher Richard McLaren hinted in his statement that it was necessary to go through the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to obtain the admission of Russian athletes to international competitions, said the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and sports at Dmitry Svishchev.

Earlier, the International Olympic Committee called on international sports federations to withdraw Russian athletes from official competitions due to the situation in Ukraine. On Sunday, the head of the independent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission investigating the doping scandal at the 2014 Olympics, McLaren, in an interview with Sportschau, called for the admission of Russian athletes to the international competitions.

– From whom, from whom, but from McLaren, I did not expect to hear the good things in the direction of Russian athletes. I salute McLaren’s statement, his position, even if he drank a lot of blood from us. He is absolutely right, that if there is a decision by the CAS, the federations and associations will be obliged to authorize Russian athletes. Thus, he alludes to the need to go to court and demand that our athletes be cleared.

In his speech, McLaren said the athletes did not start the dispute, were not participating in it and why shouldn’t they be allowed to compete? At the same time, he said the global sporting community is unlikely to allow it now, as the dispute continues. But by court order, there will be no more questions,” Svishchev told .

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.