٠٠:٠٢:٣٢Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee's recommendation to ban Russia for four years from all global sport, speaking at a joint press conference with his Icelandic counterpart Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson in Moscow on Tuesday.
"I would not make any hasty conclusions now. There are those who want to put Russia in a defensive position, the position of the accused, in everything and everywhere, in whatever area of international life you take: conflicts, the economy, energy, gas pipelines, arms sales," the Russian diplomat stated.
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, including from organising any major sports events, which could affect next summer's Euro 2020 tournament as four games are set to be staged in St Petersburg.
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: WADA committee’s sanctions call effort to sideline Moscow ‘in everything and everywhere’ – Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee's recommendation to ban Russia for four years from all global sport, speaking at a joint press conference with his Icelandic counterpart Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson in Moscow on Tuesday.
"I would not make any hasty conclusions now. There are those who want to put Russia in a defensive position, the position of the accused, in everything and everywhere, in whatever area of international life you take: conflicts, the economy, energy, gas pipelines, arms sales," the Russian diplomat stated.
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, including from organising any major sports events, which could affect next summer's Euro 2020 tournament as four games are set to be staged in St Petersburg.
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 Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee's recommendation to ban Russia for four years from all global sport, speaking at a joint press conference with his Icelandic counterpart Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson in Moscow on Tuesday.
"I would not make any hasty conclusions now. There are those who want to put Russia in a defensive position, the position of the accused, in everything and everywhere, in whatever area of international life you take: conflicts, the economy, energy, gas pipelines, arms sales," the Russian diplomat stated.
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, including from organising any major sports events, which could affect next summer's Euro 2020 tournament as four games are set to be staged in St Petersburg.
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.