Bach hopeful that IOC will sanction Russian doping before start of winter season

2017/6/4 11:46:35

Thomas Bach defends the IOC's record on doping problems


By Nick Butler for Inside the Games website, Düsseldorf, June 3, 2017

 

Thomas Bach has dismissed criticism against his performance as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President as an attempt to personally discredit him while outlining a targeted timetable for sanctioning Russian doping.

 

Two IOC-commissioned investigations are currently underway following the McLaren Report's evidence of institutional doping implicating more than 1,000 Russian athletes, at events including the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

 

The Oswald Commission is looking into allegations of sample manipulation while also analysing all samples given by Russian athletes at London 2012.

 

A second IOC-run Schmid Commission is addressing the institutional conspiracy across summer and winter sports athletes who participated with Russian officials within the Ministry of Sport and its infrastructure.

 

Bach hopes that both Commissions will have delivered a verdict before the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in February.

 

Our sanctions depend on the results of these Commissions, Bach told the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper during a visit to the World Table Tennis Championships here.

 

I hope so [that they will be implemented before Pyeongchang].

 

I would prefer it to happen before the start of the winter season so that the qualifications for the Games are clear.

 

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