Decision of IOC on Blanket Ban for Russia in Olympic 2016

12 days before Olympic, after a 3 hours meeting via teleconference of the International Olympic Comittee (IOC) excecutive board, has made the decision that….

Russia will not receive blanket ban for Olympic!

“We had to balance the collective responsibility and the individual justice to which every human being and athlete is entitled to,” IOC president Thomas Bach said.

The calls for a blanket ban on Russia intensifies after a report done by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren accusing Russia’s government overseeing a doping program for its athletes.

But the IOC board decided against the ultimate sanction, in line with Bach’s recent statements stressing the need to take individual justice into account. The IOC said the McLaren report had made no direct accusations against the Russian Olympic Committee “as an institution.”

“An athlete should not suffer and should not be sanctioned for a system in which he was not implicated,” Bach told reporters on a conference call after Sunday’s meeting. “We had to balance the collective responsibility and the individual justice to which every human being and athlete is entitled to.” which became the main theme for the decision of not banning 100% of athletes from Russia.

However, this come with the condition that any athlete from Russia that previously involved in doping are barred from entering Olympic, even the sanction has past.

In a statement, the IOC said it would accept the entry of only those Russian athletes who meet certain conditions set out for the 28 international federations to apply. The IOC said the federations have the authority, under their own rules, to exclude Russian teams as a whole.

Russian athletes accepted to the Olympics will be subject to a “rigorous additional out-of-competition testing programme,” the IOC said. Any missed test by an athlete would result in a loss of accreditation by the IOC.

Russia has admitted the doping behaviors but denies any involvement of government in the doping scandal, instead pointing at US’s ill will laden with political by involving Russia government in the doping scandal.