Olympic summit urges ‘toughest sanctions’ against those connected with Russian doping affair
- Recommendation comes two days before the World Anti-Doping Agency decides whether Russia should be banned again from international competition
A summit of leading Olympic and sport federation officials has called for “the toughest sanctions” in connection with the manipulation of Russian doping data.
The recommendation of the two-day 8th Olympic summit comes two days before the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) decides whether Russia should be banned again from international competition.
The summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, held at the invitation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), was given a presentation by outgoing WADA president Craig Reedie.
Those taking part included IOC president Thomas Bach, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe, football world governing body Fifa president Giovanni Infantino and the heads of several other sports governing bodies and Olympic committees.
The summit “strongly condemned” those responsible for the manipulation of data from the Moscow laboratory before it was transferred to WADA in January this year.