Big news that the no-one is talking about: CAS issues statement acknowledging that Russians do state-sponsored doping

WADA issued a statement this week pointing out that CAS has acknowledged Russia did in fact do state-sponsored doping.

a) WADA is not a responsible source on the matter.

b) CAS "acknowledging" that someone else (allegedly) did something is poor logical thinking

But mainly:

c) The phrase "It may be" appears to express some doubt on the matter "has been found to have engaged in a systemic manipulation", whereas WADA elides the context, pushing that "It may be" only refers to the prevention contingency.

It may be that... people are prevented from participating in the Olympic Games simply because they are citizens of a country that has been found to have engaged in a systemic manipulation of the anti-doping rules.

You (and WADA) are reading much too much between the lines, hoping to push your own narrative.

Modern "journalism"... Copy quotations from biassed sources (interested party in the proceedings), and not quote the actual decision (OK, WADA didn't either, but...) The first bit is from 7.3 (OG2), where the Panel really doesn't pass any judgment on the actual factuality of the state-sponsored doping, but puts it forth as a background assumption by IOC on why they acted as they did in their response. In actuality, in 7.5 (OG2) they make a stronger statement, about this "confirmed state-sponsored doping scheme", though again (in context) here "confirmed" only means by IOC (not by CAS), as a matter of why they acted as such. The second comes from 7.19 (OG2), where yet again the context makes it clear that the CAS is not concluding on the matter, only "confirming" (to use their word) that the IOC assumed the state-sponsored doping in the guise of their anti-doping objectives. The (OG3) decision essentially replicates the above. It might also be good to state the Panel members:

Ms Carol Roberts (Canada), President

Mr Bernhard Welten (Switzerland), arbitrator

Ms Zali Steggall (Australia) arbitrator

Big news that the no-one is talking about: CAS issues statement acknowledging that Russians do state-sponsored doping

Actually, WADA (not CAS) issued a statement welcoming a couple of remarks in the CAS award(s), which are debatedly not an "acknowledgement" of anything (by WADA, CAS, or anyone else).

Letsrun.com wrote:

we said we hoped CAS would rule whether or not state-sponsored doping occurred.

I don't think any of the cases (so far) in front of the CAS has brought up that issue as gravamen.

The recent CAS decisions were based upon law principles (eligibility vs sanction, etc.), not on a measuring of facts regarding the alleged pre-history.

Moreover, the litigant actors have been careful not to make any of their claims dependent on whether the doping is "state-sponsored" or not, but rather on whether Russia (ROC) was compliant, etc.

the Russians acted like that meant there wasn't state-sponsored doping. Far from it. It just meant that there wasn't individual proof in all of those cases

How do you have individual proof of state-sponsored doping?!

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But fine, go ahead, copy/paste some WADA propaganda, and call it "fair and balanced" or whatever your buzzword is.