Medvedev promised to clean the sport from doping Days.Ru

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the government will take measures to cleanse the Russian sports doping. Anti-doping campaign that erupted in the world, according to the head of the government, turned into anti-Russian.

the head of the government called part of anti-Russian campaign, the suspension of Russian athletes from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. About it Dmitry Medvedev has declared during the traditional communication with journalists of Russian TV channels. “Anti-doping campaign has turned into a anti-Russian campaign. This is absolutely true, and we are warned about this,” he said.

the Suspension in full the composition of the team from the Paralympic Games in 2016, the head of government called the decision beyond good and evil. “They’re a lifetime on the drugs! They were removed because everyone knows how strong our team”, – said Medvedev.

In his opinion, it is necessary to give an accurate legal assessment doping, and then to discuss what is acceptable and what is not. Each athlete, his coach and the doctor should know what drugs you can take and what you cannot, because they are prohibited. As an example, the head of the government has led Meldonium: Russian drug brought in the prohibited list, and its analogues, produced in the West, make athletes allowed. Also Medvedev promised that the state will do all it can to fight doping.

“We believe that doping is unacceptable in the sport, and the use of doping should be taboo”.

Commenting on rumors about the state support of doping, Medvedev said that in Russia there was not and cannot be the system to support the use of doping by athletes.

the Prime Minister said that there is no evidence involvement of the former Minister of sport Vitaly Mutko to the doping scandal. Medvedev noted that Mutko would never took the post of Deputy Prime Minister, if the Russian government would be evidence of his involvement in doping scandals. The Prime Minister added that all charges of international organizations the involvement of the sports Minister to promote doping in Russia has not received any evidence. At the same time, according to Medvedev, several officials of the Ministry of sports were rightly removed from positions for these reasons.

Dmitry Medvedev called the arguments of the proponents of transfer world Champion in bobsled and skeleton in Sochi “baby talk.” He recalled that the decision was made immediately after the publication of the second part of the report anti-doping Commission WADA. In this case, Medvedev noted that the International Federation of bobsleigh and skeleton said about a certain change in the atmosphere. “What a bunch of crybabies. What atmosphere?”, – outraged the head government.

on 9 December 2016, the head of the independent Commission WADA Richard McLaren unveiled the second part of the report about doping, which States that more than a thousand Russian athletes were involved in the fraud doping samples. After that, the head of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach said he will recheck all doping samples of Russians from the Olympic games in London and Sochi, reports TASS. After the publication of the second part of the report of McLaren international Federation of bobsleigh and skeleton took the decision to move into the Championship peace-2017, which was to be held in Sochi.

in the Summer of 2016, several dozen Russian athletes after investigation, WADA was removed from the Game in Rio de Janeiro, and the Russian Paralympic team is fully discharged from participation in the Paralympics in Rio.

Author: Alexander pelt

on 15 December 2016, 15:19