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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.
“It was agreed that this was an attack on sport and that these actions should lead to the toughest sanctions against those responsible,” an IOC statement said on Saturday.
The summit called for those guilty of manipulation to be “properly punished” and for Russian authorities to deliver the raw doping data to help ensure “the innocent new generation of clean Russian athletes (can be) fully protected from suspicion”.
Although WADA could impose a ban of four years at its executive committee meeting in Lausanne on Monday, Russian athletes could be allowed to compete as individuals rather than for Russia at next year's Tokyo Summer Games and at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
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Russia's Olympic Committee chief Stanislav Pozdnyakov meanwhile said Saturday that sanctions being considered by WADA were “excessive, illogical and inappropriate.”
None of the recommendations by WADA's Compliance Review Committee (CRC) say that the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has been involved in any data manipulating, Pozdnyakov said according to a report by TASS news agency.
Any sanctions would mean national sport federation chiefs who are on the ROC executive board would not receive accreditations to Olympics, while other colleagues would, he said.
The CRC has recommended to the WADA executive committee that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant and be suspended again.

Other consequences could be cancelling events due to be hosted in Russia.
Following a three-year ban, WADA lifted RUSADA's suspension on September 20, 2018, on condition that Russia hand over doping data and samples from 2012 to 2015.
The data was later discovered to have “inconsistencies” indicating that it had likely been tampered with.
Since the discovery of a state-sponsored doping scandal in 2014, Russia has struggled for years with far-reaching allegations of performance-enhancing drug use.


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Commuters walk at CSKA /TSSKA/ metro station, with its ceiling decorated with images of runners, in Moscow on December 6, 2019. - The executive committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency will meet in Lausanne on December 9 to consider a recommendation for the ban, which would exclude Russians from major sports events including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. A WADA review panel has accused Moscow of falsifying laboratory data handed over to investigators as part of a probe into the doping allegations that have plagued Russia for years. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

A man walks in front of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) headquarters in Moscow on December 6, 2019. - The executive committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency will meet in Lausanne on December 9 to consider a recommendation for the ban, which would exclude Russians from major sports events including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. A WADA review panel has accused Moscow of falsifying laboratory data handed over to investigators as part of a probe into the doping allegations that have plagued Russia for years. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)

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Recommendation comes two days before the World Anti-Doping Agency decides whether Russia should be banned again from international competition



Recommendation comes two days before the World Anti-Doping Agency decides whether Russia should be banned again from international competition.
