ROC called the charges groundless and biased WADA

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President of the ROC Stanislav Pozdnyakov during the Olympic meeting in Moscow criticized the Committee’s recommendations for compliance with the world anti-doping Agency (WADA). In particular, the Committee considers it necessary to ban the Russian sports officials to attend the Olympic games.

«Puzzling is the proposal to apply sanctions against leaders of the ROC. These accusations are unfounded and biased. They are unacceptable from the legal point of view, and from the point of view of elementary logic», — quotes Ponomareva «R-Sport».

The Committee WADA compliance is also recommended to allow Russian athletes to participate in the Olympics under a neutral flag. Pozdnyakov has promised to do everything possible for the team to come up with their own flag and anthem.

«We will do everything we can so that our team was in Tokyo under the Russian flag. And we see that the objective conditions», — said the head of the ROC.

According to Pozdnyakova, there are no objective obstacles to the full participation of Russia in the Games. «OCD is forming a team consisting of Russian athletes go and will act on the Olympic arenas of Tokyo. According to the Olympic Charter, the competition is held between countries, and between athletes,» he said.

Last week the Committee of WADA compliance recommend to the Executive Committee of the Agency to deprive the Russian anti-doping Agency (RUSADA) compliance. His decision he explained the manipulation of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory before sending the experts of WADA in January 2019.

The Executive Committee of the Agency received a recommendation to suspend Russia from participation in the international tournaments of four years. A decision on possible sanctions against it will be taken at a meeting of the WADA Executive Committee in Paris, which will be held on Monday, December 9.

Following the meeting of the Executive Committee of Russia can for the next four years to deprive of the right to host international sporting events.

Earlier this week, the IOC made for providing athletes from Russia to participate in the Games. «Report of the Committee of WADA proves that the responsibility for manipulation of data of the Moscow laboratory fully lies with the Russian authorities. We welcome the granting of Russian athletes to participate in competitions,» — said in a statement the IOC.