Russia tries to show it is getting to grips with doping problem

Record ID: 101945

  • Title: Russia tries to show it is getting to grips with doping problem
  • Date: 24th May 2016
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MAY 24, 2016) (REUTERS) RUSSIAN ANTI-DOPING CENTRE BUILDING ENTRANCE TO RUSSIAN ANTI-DOPING CENTRE RUSSIAN ANTI-DOPING CENTRE INTERIOR VARIOUS OF HEAD OF RUSSIAN ANTI-DOPING CENTRE, MARINA DIKUNETS, SHOWING SAMPLE STORAGE (SOUNDBITE (Russian) HEAD OF RUSSIAN ANTI-DOPING CENTRE, MARINA DIKUNETS, SAYING: "All the employees who have been working here and went
  • Embargoed: 8th June 2016 18:35
  • Keywords: doping sport RUSADA Russian Anti-Doping Agency Olympics
  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Sport
  • Reuters ID: LVA0014J65L4V
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  • Story Text:Russia's anti-doping agency gave interviews to foreign journalists on Tuesday (May 24) and invited them to see inside their building in an attempt to defuse controversy over a spate of doping allegations among Russian athletes.
    Speaking to journalists the Director General of the agency, Anna Antseliovich, said that they wanted to rebuild trust.
    "No, we didn't conduct an investigation. We decide to start everything from the very beginning. When we start working we will be given back the right to conduct tests. We will have new inspectors of doping control. So, we just decided to hire new people so nobody would have any doubts and everyone would trust our system of sample collection," she said.
    The Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Tuesday that Russia will introduce a law in the near future, which will mean sportsmen who are found guilty of doping will be punished under Russia's criminal code.
    Russia was suspended from international athletics in November after an international investigation uncovered damning evidence of widespread doping and corruption.
    The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) said on Tuesday that it had been informed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that re-tests of samples from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing showed 14 Russian athletes had returned positive tests.
    Athletics' governing body, the IAAF, will decide on June 17 whether Moscow has done enough to clean up its act and allow its track and field athletes to compete at the Rio Olympics.
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