So it looks WADA has now inevitably confirmed there are insufficient evidence against almost all Russian athletes

"This is very good news for all us. The decision says that WADA has managed to sort out everything that is going on. Rather professional people are working there," said Fetisov, a member of the Committee on Physical Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs with the Russian parliament’s lower house and a former member of the WADA Foundation Board.

"I hope our future relations will be so that athletes and coaches will have a chance for preparing calmly and thinking about something else," he said.

"Over the past year, the Russian Olympic Committee together with our partners - Russia’s sports federations - have been combing through (Richard) McLaren’s report," Pozdnyakov stated. "We were in close contact with international sports federations to contribute to a just and fair investigation. Now we can say that in most cases international federations either refuse to launch disciplinary proceedings or close the cases after opening them due to the lack of evidence or their absence. This refers to fencing, judo, biathlon, modern pentathlon, rowing, badminton and so on.""Some international federations have kept up investigations, for example in biathlon a probe is being carried out against six athletes, and was halted against 22. In cross-country skiing, an investigation persists against six athletes, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) recently ruled that starting from November 1 these athletes may take part in competitions and the temporary suspension was lifted. The same situation is in the troubled track and field athletics: they spoke about 50 athletes (under inquiry), but an investigation is being conducted against five."

"So, it is absolutely clear that information in McLaren’s report and related documents is incomplete and in many cases not true and cannot serve as grounds for recognizing that an athlete violated anti-doping rules," he stressed.

"No Russian athlete has so far been disqualified over the report," he emphasized. "As of today, out of more than 1,000 Russian athletes mentioned in the report no one has been found guilty and has been disqualified due on the report. This is a fact."

The mistake is that the samples taken from athletes are not handled and managed according to normal protocol for criminal law enforcement. Thus there are too many holes in WADAs procedures.

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Bye Bye Space X wrote:

The mistake is that the samples taken from athletes are not handled and managed according to normal protocol for criminal law enforcement. Thus there are too many holes in WADAs procedures.

This is not a criminal proceeding so your comment is not really on point. Think of it like a civil case where it is preponderance of evidence.

Good evening Ivan! How much is the FSB paying these days for pro-Russian trolling?

Same is going to happen with the NOP-Salazar case. A good scare.

We pay wodka only for trolls, yes?

And maybe borscht.

Idiots who think the red-baiting NYT is a "Kremlin troll" are idiots

luv2run wrote:

Bye Bye Space X wrote:

The mistake is that the samples taken from athletes are not handled and managed according to normal protocol for criminal law enforcement. Thus there are too many holes in WADAs procedures.

This is not a criminal proceeding so your comment is not really on point. Think of it like a civil case where it is preponderance of evidence.

Possibly tampered samples which have not been properly handled at all since they were drawn from elite athletes are not valid evidence. Not when we are judging elites who have worked all their lives in athletics. Doing so would be immoral, unjust, and outrageous.

So it looks like WADA now has confirmed that there is insufficient evidence against almost all Russian athletes.

I wonder how many WADA guys now have free services fro life from Russian male prostitutes courtesy of the Russian Federation?

Putin and Trump colluded on this, says CNN.