adminLONDON. — Craig Reedie, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, indicated yesterday he would be prepared to back “precedent-setting action” against Russia following suggestions the country’s entire team could be banned from August’s Olympic Games in Rio.
The founding president of WADA, Dick Pound, told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper that such a ban was “not impossible”.
Friday saw the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) uphold an international ban on Russia’s track and field competitors first imposed in November after a WADA team led by veteran Canadian sports administrator Pound revealed state-sponsored doping and mass corruption in Russian athletics.
The Russia team is now ruled out of all events in athletics in Rio, although Russian athletes training outside the country can apply to compete as neutrals at the August 5-21 event in Brazil. — AFP.
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