Moscow (AFP)
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Russia must act against the "unacceptable problem" of doping, while believing that it was not alone in cheating, just days from a meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA).
"We have a problem with doping and it is unacceptable," Dmitry Medvedev said in a live television interview broadcast by some 20 Russian TV channels, adding that Russia must "take a tougher stance on this issue. ".
However, he said he has the impression of watching "an endless Russophobic series", Russia being entangled for four years in a doping scandal.
She will know Monday, after a meeting of the executive committee of the AMA in Lausanne, if she is excluded for four years from international competitions.
"We have sinned but what: the other countries are they not sinners?", He still wondered.
According to the WADA Compliance Review Committee (CRC), Russia would have removed "hundreds" of suspicious anti-doping results from its files sent to the World Anti-Doping Agency earlier this year.
However, the delivery of these data was a prerequisite for lifting previous sanctions against the Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada), at the heart of an institutional doping system between 2011 and 2015.
Russia had already been excluded from the Rio-2016 and Pyeongchang-2018 Olympics because of this vast institutional doping system implemented at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
On Wednesday evening, the Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada), the only Russian institution with a bit of credit to international bodies, recommended the dismissal of "all the coaches of the Russian selection of athletics" and their replacement by personalities approved by Rusada.
Rusada also wants to suspend the heads of regional and national athletics training centers and a complete overhaul of the Russian Athletics Federation (Rusaf).
Several officials of Rusaf are accused by the International Federation of providing false documents to allow the 2017 vice-world champion of high jump, Danil Lysenko, to evade a sanction for failing to meet his localization obligations. unannounced checks.
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