Russia defended itself on Tuesday against accusations of a deeply rooted culture of state-sponsored doping in track and field, even as the head of its antidoping laboratory resigned in the wake of a searing report by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested that the detailed 323-page report, released by a WADA commission tasked with investigating allegations of widespread doping in Russian track and field, offered insufficient proof.
“If particular allegations are going to be aired, then they should be backed by particular evidence,”
“So long as they haven’t presented the particular evidence, it’s hard to accept the particular allegations. They remain unfounded.” Mr. Peskov told Russian journalists
It wasn’t immediately clear what Mr. Peskov and other Russian officials meant by a lack of evidence in the WADA ( World Anti-Doping Agency) commission’s report.
The scandal was first examined in a documentary aired on German television late last year, in which Russian athletes publicly admitted to doping and offered evidence of a scheme to cover up positive test results.
WADA formed an independent commission to investigate the matter in response to that documentary. In releasing their report on Monday in Geneva, the investigators said they reviewed thousands of documents, emails, laboratory records, doping control officer reports, witness statements, recordings, videos, photographs and other information in the process of drawing their conclusions, corroborating information that appeared in the German television documentary.
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