• Doping: The greatest sanction in sport history

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia will appeal the decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA), which has condemned the country's sport to four years of international isolation.

"All punishment must be individual. It is necessary to start from what was committed by this or that person, it cannot be collective and affect those who have nothing to do with infractions," he said in Paris, where he participated in a summit on the resolution of the conflict in eastern ukrainian.

Putin said he was convinced that the AMA "understands" that reasoning, and although he made it clear that Russian specialists should evaluate this sentence in detail, he considered that "there are reasons" to appeal it.

Putin also denounced that this decision of the AMA is "politically motivated", and considered that the measure "contradicts the Olympic Charter", reports AFP.

"There is nothing to reproach the Russian Olympic Committee, and if there is nothing to reproach that committee, the country must participate in competitions under its national flag"

Russia was accused of conspiring to obstruct the investigation of new cases of doping - at least 145 - through the alteration or elimination of laboratory data, changes that took place until last January.

Therefore, not only can you not participate in Olympic or World Games under your flag, but you cannot organize international events or run for it; and its officials and representatives may not be part of committees and federations, nor attend such sporting events.

The deadline sets the country out of the Tokyo Summer Games (2020) and the Beijing Winter Games (2022), and also excludes it from aspiring to organize the 2032 Olympic Games.

However, the sanction is partial, since the AMA chose to be "tough" only with the Russian authorities, but "defend" the rights of those "clean" Russian athletes who, according to the agency, can "prove their innocence" and are not involved in "fraudulent acts".

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