The Russian Olympic Committee has already been punished for the alleged state-run doping program in the country, President of International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st January, 2019) The Russian Olympic Committee has already been punished for the alleged state-run doping program in the country, President of International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach said on Tuesday.Earlier in the day, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said that Russia had not provided data from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory by December 31, which was set as a deadline.
"In PyeongChang, we sanctioned the systematic manipulation of the anti-doping system in Russia during the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014. The IOC sanctioned those entities involved, proportional to their levels of responsibility ... With its suspension from the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, the Russian Olympic Committee has served its sanction," Bach said, as quoted in a statement.
The Russian anti-doping system is being reformed amid the scandal over the alleged state-run doping program in the country, which resulted in a number of sanctions against Russian officials and athletes. Russian officials have refuted the allegations of the state-run doping program, while admitting that Russian sports had some issues with doping abuse.
