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Russia was suspended for four years from major international sports competitions

The “Anti-Doping Agency” (WADA) “Compliance Committee” (WADA) on December 9 adopted a recommendation to deprive Russia of four years of the right to participate in major international sporting events. Writes about it "Present Tense".

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These include the Olympics and all the World Championships, including the football in Qatar and the Hockey World Championship, the WADA press service said. But it does not include the European Football Championship in the summer of 2020 of the year and the final of the Champions League in St. Petersburg.

All this time, Russia also will not be able to apply for the organization of international tournaments and will not be able to send its officials to international sports.

“The committee’s recommendation was unanimously approved,” WADA said in a statement.

The head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency RUSADA, Yuri Ganus, confirmed that the WADA executive committee unanimously accepted the committee’s recommendations, and his deputy Margarita Pakhnotskaya emphasized that the recommendation is “a reason for the Russian sports leadership to think about it”:

“I hear presidents of federations and experts who proudly declare their activities, have answered everything, and all around are enemies who attack our athletes. This all suggests that our anti-doping culture has not changed, nothing conceptual has been done over the years,” she said.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) may not agree with the decision of WADA and still allow Russia to enter the Olympics. A similar decision can be made by FIFA, which organizes the World Cup in Qatar. Then the issue of admission of Russian athletes will be considered in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), where the Russian Olympic and Paralympic Committees, as well as other sports organizations, can submit their objections.

Earlier, the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, stated that the decision of WADA would be binding on his organization. And the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on international affairs, the former skater Svetlana Zhurova, has already stated that Russia will challenge WADA's decision in sports arbitration.

At the same time, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, head of the United Russia faction, Sergei Neverov, said that “it is not within the competence of WADA” to ban him and other civil servants from traveling to sporting events.

“The issue of attending sporting events for the citizens of our country is a personal matter for everyone. A person may have a day off, a person may have a vacation, free time,” the deputy said.

The main reason for the removal of Russia is the doping scandal related to the fake doping samples of Russian participants in the Sochi Olympics and athletes who took part in other competitions in Russia. It has been going on for several years. WADA accuses the Russian authorities of a large-scale violation of world anti-doping rules, the Russian authorities deny these allegations.

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In 2016, WADA issued a full report on how Russian athletes massively used doping during the Sochi Olympics in 2014, and Russian sports officials covered them at the highest level, starting with Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko.

In part, the conclusions of the report were based on the testimony of the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov. Shortly after the Sochi Olympics, he fled to the United States and became an informant for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). He said that personally developed and administered doping (“Duchess cocktail”) to many Russian athletes, who won medals, which is why Russia became the leader in the overall medal standings. Employees of his laboratory at the Olympics helped to hide the fraud: they replaced samples with “clean” ones in a secret room adjacent to the laboratory, and prepared test tubes with “clean” tests in advance.

WADA later managed to confirm that the 12 doping tests from the 44 Russian medalists of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi were opened, and the samples of six Russian Paralympic athletes were fakes. In total, an independent commission discovered a likely substitution of doping tests for 15 Russian Olympic medalists in Sochi.

Russia never admitted allegations of widespread doping by its athletes in Sochi. Also, the Kremlin refused to name the authors of the doping program and those who implemented it. Instead, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other officials called the report of the McLaren commission on doping in Russia “falsified”", "not withstanding criticism" and "adjusted to the circumstances."

Based on McLaren’s report, the Russian Paralympic team was suspended from participation in the last summer Olympics in Brazil, and many athletes from the main team were also not allowed to compete and were deprived of already won medals. At the next Winter Olympics in Korean Pyeongchang in 2018, Russian athletes performed under a neutral flag.

In 2018, WADA experts undertook a large-scale re-examination of the doping sample database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory and found “traces of outside interference” in the Russian agency’s database, that is, the substitution of “thousands” of doping samples. The Russian authorities were again unable to provide a clear explanation of what happened to the base and who replaced the samples and when.

It is in the wake of the new database scandal that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee recently complied with recommended to the executive committee remove Russia from international competition for four years.

Ранее ForumDaily wrotethat the “Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)” Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on November 25 recommended that Russian athletes be suspended for four years from competitions and world championships, as well as depriving Russia of the right to host such events.

Not only were the trips of Russians to the next Olympics under their own flag, but also their performance at competitions in the country's most popular sports - from football and figure skating to the world championship in hockey. At the same time, WADA uses a new procedure by which the agency can decide for itself whom and how much to remove from the competition, and the federations of different sports are theoretically obliged to obey it.

What sanctions will befall Russia

RUSADA Russian Anti-Doping Agency has been deprived of WADA compliance status by decision. This means that athletes will not be able to perform at the Olympics and world championships under the flag of Russia. The WADA Executive Committee also introduced a four-year ban on visiting international sporting events by Russian civil servants and the leadership of the Russian Olympic Committee and the Paralympic Committee. Thus, Russian athletes will not be able to participate under the Russian flag in the Games in Tokyo 2020 year and in Beijing in 2022 year. The decision does not prohibit their participation under a neutral flag if they manage to prove their non-involvement in doping, writes «Radio Svoboda».

In addition, for four years, the Russian flag cannot be raised at any competitions, and Russian athletes and their personnel will be able to participate in them only if they manage to prove their complete non-involvement in any violations. At the same time, they still will not be able to represent their country officially.

The fate of the Russian football team

The International Football Federation said earlier that it would decide on possible sanctions against the Russian team no earlier than the World Anti-Doping Agency made a final decision. Now FIFA must decide on the fate of the Russian national football team. It depends on FIFA whether the players will take part in the Qatar World Cup in 2022.

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The European Championship, to which the Russian team has entered and several matches of which will be held in Russia, is not a multisports event or a world championship, therefore the recommendations of the compliance committee do not apply to it. UEFA does not directly report to WADA, but is a member of FIFA and is required to comply with the code, the anti-doping association said in a statement.

Reaction

Three-time world champion in high jump Maria Lasitskene: “I had no doubt about such an outcome. I didn’t believe in the stories that everything would be fine. What happened today is a shame. Future plans? Fight for yourself and perform. I never intended to change my citizenship, and I don’t plan to do so now. I will prove in the sector that Russian athletes are alive, even if in a neutral status. I've been doing this for the last few years. The only thing that confuses us is that the athletes are alone in their struggle, and the leaders of our sport have been protecting us only in words all this time.”

General Director of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency Yuri Ganus: “On December 19, the RUSADA Supervisory Board. Most likely, we will decide on an appeal in court. But it seems to me that there are no prospects.”

Honored figure skating coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova: “I think there will be people in Russia who, in their education, in their soul, in their devotion, and in their intelligence, will correspond to the real concept of “leader.” This is not an easy task! The same deck doesn't have to be shuffled all the time! I believe that these leaders who were appointed before this are a disgrace to Putin! He appointed them to these positions, they must understand this.”

More stringent sanctions proposed

On the eve of the consideration of the issue of sanctions against Russian athletes, the Committee of Athletes of the World Anti-Doping Agency She urged completely remove them from participation in the 2020 Olympics of the year in Tokyo. According to 17 famous athletes in the past, the proposal of the International Olympic Committee to allow clean athletes from Russia to compete in Japan under a neutral flag is an insufficient punishment. Thus, the Athletes Committee joined the requirements of the US and UK anti-doping agencies, which advocate maximum sanctions against Russia.

Nine members of the committee believe that the only right decision would be to completely ban the Russians from speaking at the next two Olympics. Permanent and deliberate deception, corruption are an insult not only to those who play fair, but also to those who try to defend their principles, the statement of the Athletes Committee said.

What is Russia accused of?

Due to the doping scandal, Russia has already been removed from the 2018 Olympics of the year. After that, the status of RUSADA was restored, but subject to the provision of a database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory in WADA. New fraud with doping tests by Russian athletes was discovered in January 2019, when WADA received a database from a Moscow laboratory. Association experts found that it lacked hundreds of potential positive samples.

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The changes in the database, according to WADA experts, were made during the period from 2016 to 2019, that is, after the publication of McLaren's report on doping fraud in Russia at the Sochi Olympics and the flight of RUSADA official Grigory Rodchenkov to the United States. In addition, after 25 on November 2018, the date Russia agreed to transfer the database of its laboratory to WADA, someone in Moscow entered into fake correspondence trying to present everything as if the changes were made by Rodchenkov and his assistants.

General Director of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency Yuri Ganus confirmedthat thousands of changes were made to the database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory before being sent to experts of the World Anti-Doping Agency: “We have been betrayed, this is some kind of conspiracy. Changes were made, including literally on the eve of the transfer of the database in January 2019.”

Ganus also emphasized that only influential people close to the Russian authorities could gain access to the data. “Russia is a country with a high sports level, but the people who were responsible for the decision in the current situation chose the wrong path,” said the head of RUSADA.

The doping scandal in Russian sports has been going on for several years. Russian authorities deny that the doping program existed at the state level.

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