Moscow to stand up for national athletes

Moscow is not going to change it's position, and will do everything to stand up for national athletes. It is going to defend them against the false doping usage accusations, stated the press secretary for the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, TASS reports.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) this month annulled the results of 14 Russian athletes who competed in Sochi because of doping violations. 10 medals earned by Russian athletes in Sochi were taken away. Hence, the Russian team has lost the first place in the team event.

It is worth mentioning that Dmitry Peskov has already stated that authorities from overseas try to push The International Olympic Committee not to let Russian athletes participate in the next year's Olympic games.

As we informed before, WADA commission under Richard McLaren have introduced the first part of anti-doping investigation report on Sochi Olympic games in Summer 2016. The second part of Richard McLaren Independent Investigation Report published at the end of 2016, stated the evidence of manipulation of doping samples submitted by 1,000 Russian sportsmen during Olympiad in Sochi. However, during following sports federations meeting in Lausanne WADA informed that the evidence provided in McLaren Report doesn’t have enough grounds for Russian sportsmen disqualification. Russia has harshly criticized guiding principles of the Richard McLaren Commission’s work many times. As a result of its work Russian athletes were restrained to participate in Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. 

Russkiy Mir