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There is little more than 6 months at the beginning of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang 2018. However, it is still unclear whether a superpower of snow and ice disciplines such as Russia can take part. CIO President Thomas Bach has stated that at this time the question is still open.
Friday 4 August 2017 3 minutes reading time
The number one in the International Olympic Committee, questioned about London (where the high poppies of the body he presided over met in order to meet the IAAF leadership) said that "now any response to this question would be speculation.
There are two commissions at work. One is chaired by Denis Oswald and has to try to test again all the samples of Russian athletes taken during the Sochi Olympics. The other is led by Samuel Schmid and is verifying the well-founded allegations made by Russia about state intervention in the anti-doping system, which would have been able to hide some positives.
Russia's participation in the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games will depend on the outcome of the work of these two commissions. "
Translated, Bach pulled out a few words of circumstance. However, it is to be reflected on a fact.
Oramai has passed more than a year since the publication of the infamous McLaren report, on the basis of which many Russian athletes have been suspended (such as the six founders, including top men such as Aleksander Legkov and Maxim Vylegzhanin), but still today Working to understand the truth of the allegations. "
Allegations that, then, in any civilian institution, they must be tried to bring about concrete consequences. In other words, in one year, the investigations that followed the McLaren report have not yet produced a trick of proof.
PyeongChang 2018 misses less than half the time it has been using so far by international institutions to investigate the issue without reaching a conclusion.
If the cards on the table are not going to change, does Russia really risk being excluded on the basis of what, at the moment, can anything be defined?
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