The Minister of sports of Russia Vitaly Mutko said that the WADA report of the Commission headed by Richard McLaren not legally hold water.
“We made conclusions on the report and send our opinion in WADA, IOC. The findings that he falsified. His legal technique does not withstand any criticism,” — said Mutko.
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McClaren refused to provide the IOC specific evidence in the doping
According to him, the Ministry of sport will appeal to the civil courts, and the report will be prosecuted.
“And we also refer to the management of the Swiss company, which produced the jar for sampling. We want to make public the assessment of products”, the Minister added.
In the report of the McLaren argues that in Russia there was supposedly controlled by the government, the system of concealment of positive doping tests. On the basis of this investigation, WADA recommended to suspend the entire national team of Russia from the Olympic and Paralympic games in Rio de Janeiro. The Executive Committee the IOC in the end, gave the right of admission of athletes to the Games, the international sports federations, as a result, the 2016 Olympics were not Russian athletes, with the exception of Daria Kishineu, the entire national team in weightlifting and a number of athletes representing other sports. The international Paralympic Committee has removed from the Games all Russian Paralympians.
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