Already six years before the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) banned Russia, they should have known that it occurred a systematic doping in the worst case could cost athletes life.
This emerged from internal documents that AP has gained access to. IAAF should also have been aware of at least 42 percent of the Russian athletes cheated – and considered to hide – the Russian doping before the London Olympics in 2012.
Russia was first in November 2015 banned temporarily from the International Association of Athletics Federations as a result of a report from an independent committee chaired by doping hunter Dick Pound. Now thus shows new documents that they should have known good cheated six years earlier.
IAAF was according to the documents so well acquainted with the Russian doping that they feared that practitioners could kill themselves through the use of EPO and blood transfusions.
Background: Athletics report that beats like a bomb
– This thing with the Russian athletes’ blood levels are now so serious and will not improve ( in reality possibly even worse) that immediate and drastic reaction is necessary, wrote Pierre Weiss, the then secretary general of the IAAF, in a letter on 14 October 2009. The letter was addressed to the then Russian athletics president Valentin Balakhnitsjev and was overrrakt him personally. Balakhnitsev is now banned for life from the sport.
– Not only cheating these athletes against its competitors but these levels puts you health and even their lives in serious danger, wrote Weiss.
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He informed athletics president that blood levels they had measured from Russian athletes were some of the highest since the IAAF started by testing blood levels.
The doping controls during the World Cup in 2009 (where Russia got 13 medals) substantiated in According Weiss highly systematic use of blood doping or EPO products.
This latest revelation will put further pressure on the new IAAF president Sebastian Coe.
IAAF came Wednesday with a statement in which it refuted that something was attempted kept hidden.
– Every suspicious ABP (athletes’ biological passport, ed.’s note.) was investigated in accordance with IAAF rules and anti-doping regulations. All confirmed doping samples were sanctioned publicly. Nothing was tilekket, claims IIAF, and continues:
– In 2011 there was a huge influx of suspicious profiles revealed through ABP. In vvert case takes on average between 8 and 18 months of investigation for sanctioning. It was necessary to prioritize, and especially get through cases involving potential medal winners ahead of the Olympics in London. No cases were concealed or omitted, IAAF priority simply by importance. EVerY athlete was investigated, and either been sanctioned against or is part of an ongoing process, writes IAAF.
Thursday comes part two of the report Pound committee has made.
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As part one was presented in autumn 2015 responded international athletics managers as if this was a novelty for them.
– This has been a disgraceful awakens, said Coe. Now therefore suggest much that athletics leaders were well aware of the Russian cheated.
According to an internal briefing with the then IAAF President Lamine Diack in September 2012 it was thought that 42 percent of all tested Russian athletes were doped. In the same meeting it was also expressed concern about doping in Turkey, Spain, Morocco and Ukraine.
Comment : Russian roulette with the sport’s credibility
APs documents shows that the IAAF leaders considered to cooperate with Russia before the London Olympics in order to hide the Russian doping. At the same time realized the leaders that it was not possible to “remove” doped athletes from competitions quietly, because there would be questioned by the media and others.
The documents show that the IAAF on the one hand trying to get Russian athletics leaders to do something about the doping problem but simultaneously considered concealing the problem – for fear that it would hurt athletics reputation.
It has not yet been any official Russian reactions to the AP article.
President Vladimir Putin said after the first part of Pound selection was announced, that he expected Russian athlete would “collaborate professionally with anti-doping organizations.”
– Sports competitions are only interesting when it is honest , said the Russian president.
Putin was concerned that those who have doped themselves, must be punished, and that it not be so pure also punished for the cheaters have done.
Norwegian Rune Andersen and his crew in the independent group that will help the Russians on track in the fight against doping, has been in Russia this week. Andersen says to RIA Novosti that they’re going to go back in within a month – after the Russian athletics federation has elected a new president.
– We have stressed the need to realize the existing problems and the desire to make real and lasting changes in Russian athletics, Andersen says to RIA Novosti.
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