Russian sports officials on Tuesday spoke out against a World Anti-Doping Agency...
MOSCOW - Russian sports officials on Tuesday spoke out against a World Anti-Doping Agency committee’s recommendations that the country be banned from the Olympics for four years, saying this was overly harsh and would hurt sport there.
“It’s sad. I can only call these recommendations unfair,” Umar Kremlev, head of Russia’s boxing federation, said in a statement. For Dmitry Svishchev, president of Russia’s curling federation, the country has already sufficiently been punished for its doping scandals. “Russia has made great progress in fighting doping. To punish the next generation in such a harsh manner is too much.”
The committee also recommended barring Russia from hosting major sporting events for four years, and moving major events for which Russia has already won hosting rights elsewhere “unless it is legally or practically impossible to do so.”
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