Russian Paralympic sportsmen prove their innocence

No one of Russian participants of qualification competitions at the Winter Paralympics in South Korea used doping. All their doping tests (more than two hundred in total), were clean, TASS reports.

As per the Russian Paralympics Committee, tomorrow the hearing of the Execution Board of the International Paralympic Committee starts to review the latest information on restitution of membership of the Russian Paralympic Committee and to resolve the question of participation of our national team in the Winter Paralympics.

Last autumn the International Paralympic Committee has approved national athletes in qualification of Paralympics. They were allowed to go in for mountain skiing, biathlon, ski races and snowboarding. Sixty-eight people got initial permission and later the list was downsized until 63 participants.

As the Russkiy Mir Foundation has reported earlier, the second part of the report by Richard McLaren contained statements that around a thousand of our sportsmen took part in substitution of doping tests during the Olympics in Sochi.

Right after the second part of the report was published, the Paralympic Committee of Russia sent a request to the IOC, WADA and McLaren to clarify the information concerning supposed participation of the Paralympic sportsmen from Russia in the scheme of doping tests’ substitution described in the report. No clarifications have been provided up until now.

Russkiy Mir