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ANTI-DOPING TOPS: Yurij Ganus and Margarita Pakhnotskaja (t.h.) are the head and the head of the Russian anti-doping agency Rusada. Photo: IREK DOROZANSKI / AFP
WADA has painstakingly gathered evidence against 298 Russian athletes, and turned it over to international special federations.
On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the evidence was released to 27 international special federations, as well as to an organizer of a major sporting event, according to a press release from WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency.
However, after much, in January 2019, the AMA finally had access to retrieve data and samples from the much talked about anti-doping laboratory in Moscow. In the summer of 2019, the AMA reported that they had identified 298 practitioners with alleged doping samples from the Moscow laboratory. Now the evidence against all this is gathered.
– I cannot reveal anything about names or other details. But these are ready-to-use “packages”, which means they are problems that can be dealt with quickly by international special federations, “Margarita Pakhnotskaja, director of Russia’s anti-doping agency Rusada, told R-sports.
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– WADA says the investigation is complete and therefore it is possible to open a case and make a decision.
Pakhnotskaya did not respond to VG’s questions on Friday.
Of the 298 cases, 145 will be about Russians manipulating doping data and doping tests.
“Of course, there are a sad number of problems, but we want to go ahead and complete this so that the sport can breathe clean air,” says its boss, Jury Ganus, in a comment to the Tass news agency.
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So on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, WADA informed international special associations about what they found and how this could be used to raise doping cases against Russian practitioners.
“The evidence is based on information from the Moscow Laboratory database, the 2016 McLaren report, as well as the doping samples obtained,” the AMA report said.
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WADA warns that they will verify the judgments made by international unions on whether to appeal or not, and that they can appeal to CAS (the sports arbitration court) if they believe the decision is wrong.
They also threaten to go to CAS if unions do not respond quickly enough to the evidence they have now received.
“We have built these case packages on all available evidence, and will continue to provide assistance and advice when we consider opening doping cases,” said Gunther Younger, head of the AMA Intelligence and Investigation Department, in the press release.
“This has been the most complex investigation in the history of anti-doping, and it has done an excellent job,” said WADA President Witold Banka.
– It has involved thousands of samples, 24 terabytes of data and hundreds of athletes from 28 organizations.
