The presentation of the 323-page report on doping, massive cover-up of positive samples and corruption in the Russian Athletics offset not only the international sports scene in commotion.
She also has a political dimension. Because of the commission of inquiry of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is no doubt that the Russian state is a “culture of doping” in the country systematically supported in recent years.
Getting answers it has already given, many questions are still open. Here are the most important.
To the complaints at issue in the core?
Actually, should the anti-doping work world so be organized so that it is independent of interests of sports associations and government influence. As far as the ideal image. In Russia, the three-member commission was to the Canadian lawyer Dick Pound, however, an unprecedented felt before.
The Wada-accredited anti-doping laboratory in Moscow was therefore at least mitgelenkt by the Russian state, its director Gregori Rodschenkow looked just like the National Anti-Doping Agency Rusada actively participated in the cover-up of positive samples.
In addition, existed a “shadow-laboratory”, could be tested by means of which apparently doped athletes preventive and possibly prevented from traveling to competitions. Various Russian top athletes should be around come around locks -. But only after they were extorted by corrupt officials often hundreds of thousands of Euros
How was the felt ever publicized
A highly regarded ARD documentation (“top secret doping”) as well as the newspaper “Sunday Times” described the corrupt system beginning in December 2014 for the first time. The reports prompted the Wada establishing the commission of inquiry. As the journalists also interviewed the members of the passage of time various witnesses and whistleblowers. “We want to congratulate the whistleblowers,” Pound said explicitly. It was important to find more and better ways in which such important informants can be protected participate in education in the future.
The Commission’s recommendations in check
. 1 Exclusion of the Russian Athletics Federation from the World Association: quite likely. IAAF President Sebastian Coe has mandated his Council, “to begin to consider sanctions against the Russian Athletics Federation Araf”. That sounds lame as it is. Far from being an (at least temporary) exclusion would convey the critical public hardly. The participation of Russian athletics stars such as pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva at the Summer Games in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro is at stake.
. 2 Withdrawal of accreditation for the Moscow anti-doping laboratory: as a first measure already happened. “The Moscow Laboratory is provisionally suspended, and beyond is a Disciplinary Commission, formed shortly examine the case and decide on the status of accreditation of laboratories,” said WADA President Craig Reedie. That the obviously corrupt laboratory manager Rodschenkow shall remain in office, is virtually ruled out.
. 3 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will initially allow no Russian athletes in international competitions: not yet been decided. In his usual diplomatic speech, the IOC announced that overlooks the games “continue to take all possible measures to protect clean athletes, clean sport and good governance”. First, the Russian Federation now has to ensure to finally play by the rules of the WADA Code. The ball is now though to the IAAF.
4. Lifetime locks for five athletes, four coaches and a sports physician: are affected among others the 800-meter Olympic champion and the -THIRD of 2012, Maria Sawinowa-Farnossowa and Jekaterina Poistogowa, as well as the head coach of the long-distance runner, Alexey Melnikov. The successful athletes threatens the forfeiture of any medals. The IOC will look into it. The Chief Medical Officer of the Russian Athletics Federation, Sergey Portugalov, comes a sinister key role to play.
are affected in addition to athletics, other sports
And if so, what? They are the most explosive, yet unanswered questions. Although the work of the commission of inquiry aimed only from the Athletics. But their chief Pound stressed that the athletes are not the only country in the world is not the only sport and Russia with a big doping problem.
“The scandal in athletics is more than outrageous, “says the former long-time IAAF Council member Helmut Digel-the” world “,” but the current education is not enough. What was in Kenya? What’s going on in Turkey? ” . However, for example, the swimming’s world governing body Fina “known anything but at ease when it comes to the anti-doping system”
Digel also wonders: “What happens in the criminal way? ” WADA-finding mission has passed by its own account documents and information to Interpol. “Investigation by the French prosecutor’s office is currently aimed but apparently only on the Russia issue of the IAAF from.”
In the twilight now also the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi , At that time the dubious Moscow Laboratory for Doping Control was responsible. A few months earlier, it had been already suspended temporarily.
Pound responded to the question of doubt as to the Olympic list of results from Sochi: “We can not be confident that there was no manipulation There are none. evidence. ” The same applies to more than 1,400 willfully in Russian analytical laboratory destroyed samples, of which at least a part allegedly came from non-athletes.
A spokesman for the German Ski Association Shrove Tuesday is representative of the concern that the far-reaching manipulation “not only athletics, but also other summer and winter sports are concerned.”
How do the Russians on the explosive report?
In many parts with rejection and defiance. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed-Tuesday, the report by the Wada-Finding Commission is unfounded. The hard guessed into trouble Doping analyst Rodschenkow grumbled about the authors of the report: “These are three idiots who know nothing of the work of the laboratory.”
Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said that there is in the report no relevant new information: “We do not deny that we have problems – but the whole world, it has also” he said.
Russian media assist. So asserts “Moskovsky Komsomolets”: “Doping is unfortunately an indispensable part of professional sport Other nations have better means to disguise it..” And “Kommersant” commented: “The publication of this report does not automatically mean that Russia will be severely punished.” In order that the newspaper might even be right.
As judges, the international press?
“Like a spy novel” be read the 323-page report says the “LA Times” from the United States. In Italy, writes “Gazzetta dello Sport” from “Apocalypse for Russia: The serious allegation is systematic state doping It meets in devastating fashion one of the leading sporting nations in the world..”
The credibility of the Russian Athletics had been “reduced to zero”, says the French newspaper “Le Monde”: “Five days after the indictment in France against Diack This is a new blow to the core Olympic sport – and other should follow. “
Is Russia eligible to host the World Cup in 2018?
Hardly. Especially as the Fifa currently even have quite a few problems, such as Richard Pound unkte. However, the ethics committee of the Football World Association has already listening.
Because of the in Russia doping system of complicity accused Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko – a loyal confidant of President Vladimir Putin – is a powerful man in world sport with a considerable accumulation of offices.
Mutko is simultaneously head of the Russian Football Federation, head of the World Cup organizing committee and member of the Executive Committee of UEFA and FIFA. The Kremlin had announced, the question of a withdrawal Mutkos not imagine.
What will happen now?
WADA executive meets early next week. There is urgent need for action and advice. If the Wada, the IAAF and the IOC to get tough?
Russia is a world power in sports, Russian sponsors as Gazprom finance the international entertainment industry elite sport considerably with, and also thanks to strong help from Russia reached the German Thomas Bach in 2013 the Office of the IOC President. Sanctions are likely. . Only: Too much diligence in cleaning up, no one should expect from the cumbersome organizations
skilled worker Digel said: “Here is a doping control system as a whole into question – financed the remainder largely by the taxpayer, if we must now realize that this control system is undermined in the sports organizations of the leaders themselves -.? why we finance then such a system ” It’s a rhetorical question
Already warns Wada Commission President Pound before an irreparable loss of confidence in world sport. “Public opinion will go there, that the whole health is corrupt. If you can not trust competition results, then there is a serious credibility problem. “
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