Much ado about nothing in "the 'emergency meeting' dell''Ibu on the subject of doping

Yesterday in Antholz the 'Ibu held a "' emergency 'meeting regarding the allegations contained in the report McLaren. Beyond dell''altisonante name, as expected the meeting gave birth to very few concrete effects.

Sunday 22 January 2017 3 minutes reading time

Anders Besseberg, president of the international federation, has summarized the findings dall''incontro: "On December 22, when we suspended two athletes (whose names have not been revealed yet, but the evidence suggests that it is Olga Vilukhina and Iana Romanova), we launched un''indagine the other 29 names in the list sent to us by Wada. To date, only seven of these 29 athletes are still under investigation. The other 22 will have no problem. We asked the Russian Federation to suspend these seven names, but we can not force them, and for the moment have not yet made this step. However we must not forget how, at our request is not binding, have voluntarily given up organizing Junior World Championships in Ostrov and the stage of the World Cup in Tyumen. So the 'impression is that there is a willingness to cooperate. Depending dell''esito dell''indagine still going on, we could decide whether to re-test all samples taken for the Russian athletes during the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014. However in February there will be an extraordinary congress where we will discuss the possibility of amending the rules on the subject of doping and not only, to compel it to come into force since the Hochfilzen World Cup. It will also discuss the Tyumen position on the World Cup of 2021 ". In short, a lot of smoke and no fire. The proof is the fact that representatives of the proponents of the hard-line countries (Martin Fourcade, Lowell Bailey and Michal Å lesingr) have left the meeting during the 'work. "I think they have done well" - said the 'head coach Czech Ondrej Rybar - "Why were losing time. It is seen as the' Ibu has decided not to decide." perfect synthesis.

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