01:45Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said some of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee’s recommendations on new sanctions towards Russian sport “go beyond the agency’s standards”, speaking after meeting with the heads of Russian sports organisations in Moscow on Wednesday.
“We cannot affect this, but we already have some proposals for response measures following the results of December 9 [WADA Executive Committee meeting],” he said.
The minister also noted that he had discussed the WADA committee’s recommendations with the sport federations, saying they had “full understanding” of the situation.
“I think that now we need to work calmly together, and to prepare for the Olympic Games, now everyone is tuned for that,” he concluded.
WADA announced on Monday that its independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) recommended that Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant with the world anti-doping code after the CRC's investigation found that data handed over from a Moscow laboratory had been manipulated.
The committee said that the lab data "are neither complete nor fully authentic […] hundreds of presumptive adverse analytical findings that appear in the 2015 copy of the LIMS database have been removed from the 2019 copy, and the related underlying raw data and PDF files have been deleted or altered."
The CRC report also recommended that Russia be banned from all global sport for four years, which, among other things, could mean new restrictions on its athletes and teams at next year's Tokyo Olympics.
WADA's Executive Committee will vote on the CRC's recommendations in its meeting in Paris on December 9.
The long-running doping saga goes back to 2015 when RUSADA was first declared non-compliant after a WADA-commissioned report by sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren alleged "institutionalised" doping programme in Russia.
Russia: Sports Minister Kolobkov says preparations for Tokyo Olympics continue
Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said some of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee’s recommendations on new sanctions towards Russian sport “go beyond the agency’s standards”, speaking after meeting with the heads of Russian sports organisations in Moscow on Wednesday.
“We cannot affect this, but we already have some proposals for response measures following the results of December 9 [WADA Executive Committee meeting],” he said.
The minister also noted that he had discussed the WADA committee’s recommendations with the sport federations, saying they had “full understanding” of the situation.
“I think that now we need to work calmly together, and to prepare for the Olympic Games, now everyone is tuned for that,” he concluded.
WADA announced on Monday that its independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) recommended that Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant with the world anti-doping code after the CRC's investigation found that data handed over from a Moscow laboratory had been manipulated.
The committee said that the lab data "are neither complete nor fully authentic […] hundreds of presumptive adverse analytical findings that appear in the 2015 copy of the LIMS database have been removed from the 2019 copy, and the related underlying raw data and PDF files have been deleted or altered."
The CRC report also recommended that Russia be banned from all global sport for four years, which, among other things, could mean new restrictions on its athletes and teams at next year's Tokyo Olympics.
WADA's Executive Committee will vote on the CRC's recommendations in its meeting in Paris on December 9.
The long-running doping saga goes back to 2015 when RUSADA was first declared non-compliant after a WADA-commissioned report by sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren alleged "institutionalised" doping programme in Russia.
Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said some of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee’s recommendations on new sanctions towards Russian sport “go beyond the agency’s standards”, speaking after meeting with the heads of Russian sports organisations in Moscow on Wednesday.
“We cannot affect this, but we already have some proposals for response measures following the results of December 9 [WADA Executive Committee meeting],” he said.
The minister also noted that he had discussed the WADA committee’s recommendations with the sport federations, saying they had “full understanding” of the situation.
“I think that now we need to work calmly together, and to prepare for the Olympic Games, now everyone is tuned for that,” he concluded.
WADA announced on Monday that its independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) recommended that Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant with the world anti-doping code after the CRC's investigation found that data handed over from a Moscow laboratory had been manipulated.
The committee said that the lab data "are neither complete nor fully authentic […] hundreds of presumptive adverse analytical findings that appear in the 2015 copy of the LIMS database have been removed from the 2019 copy, and the related underlying raw data and PDF files have been deleted or altered."
The CRC report also recommended that Russia be banned from all global sport for four years, which, among other things, could mean new restrictions on its athletes and teams at next year's Tokyo Olympics.
WADA's Executive Committee will vote on the CRC's recommendations in its meeting in Paris on December 9.
The long-running doping saga goes back to 2015 when RUSADA was first declared non-compliant after a WADA-commissioned report by sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren alleged "institutionalised" doping programme in Russia.