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In Geneva & egrave; recently ended a devastating press conference held by Wada. The 'World Anti-Doping Agency has accused Russia of having established a de facto system of doping state, with repercussions also on the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014.
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The report from a commission WADA That Has Been probing media Allegations of widespread doping and deception in Russia said even the country 's intelligence service, the FSB, was Involved, spying on Moscow''s anti-doping lab, including During last year '' s Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The commission chaired by Dick Pound recommended That WADA immediately declare the Russian federation "non-compliant" with the global anti-doping code, and That the IAAF suspend the federation from competition.
It anche said the International Olympic Committee Should not accept any entries from the Russian federation until the body Has Been declared complaint with the code and the suspension Has Been Lifted. Such a decision could keep Russian athletes out of next year 's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The commission anche accused the Russian state of complicity. It said its months-long probe found no written evidence of government involvement but it added: "It would be naive in the extreme to conclude That activities on the stairs discovered could have occurred without the explicit or tacit approval of Russian governmental authorities."
The report said agents from the FSB even infiltrated Russia 's anti-doping work at the Sochi Olympics. One witness Told the inquiry that "in Sochi, we had some guys pretending to be engineers in the lab but actually they were from the federal security service."
Staff at Russia 's anti-doping lab in Moscow believed Their offices were bugged by the FSB and an FSB agent, thought to be Evgeniy Blotkin or Blokhin, Regularly visited.
This was part of a wider pattern of "direct intimidation and interference by the Russian were with the Moscow laboratory operations," the report said.
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