McLaren report

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The McLaren Report is an investigation report published on behalf of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) into a state doping system in Russia from 2011 to 2016. This is named after the chief investigator Richard McLaren . A first report ( McLaren Investigation Report Part I ) was published in July 2016, a second ( McLaren Investigation Report Part II ) in December 2016.

History of origin

Russia hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and took first place in the medal table. Around ten months later, on December 3, 2014, the ARD broadcast a documentary film by Hajo Seppelt entitled Doping as a Secret Matter - How Russia Makes Its Winners , in which the first indications of state doping in Russia became known. Findings were brought into the film by, among others, the Russian middle-distance runner Julija Stepanova , who then fled Russia and was later not allowed to take part in the Olympic Games because of her participation in the doping system. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) continued after the airing of the documentary on 16 December 2014 Commission of Inquiry headed by Dick Pound one, the next to the German detectives Günter Younger and Richard McLaren belonged. First results were announced in November 2015, including the involvement of the Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) in doping practices. The association was suspended by the World Athletics Federation (IAAF), which also meant the exclusion of Russian athletes from the 2016 Summer Olympics . The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) and the Moscow anti-doping laboratory concerned were also sanctioned.

In a second report by the commission of inquiry on January 14, 2016, the role of the World Athletics Federation under the direction of Lamine Diack was highlighted. Diack had already lost control of the association in 2015 because of allegations related to doping practices. Another TV documentary on WDR on March 6, 2016 revealed new findings.

The actual "McLaren Report" was requested from Richard McLaren in May 2016 by WADA. Grigory Rodchenkov , former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, confirmed in the New York Times cover-up practices in his laboratory in collaboration with RUSADA. This should also affect 14 Russian medalists from the Sochi Winter Games. Commissioned by WADA, Richard McLaren then prepared the 97-page investigative report as chief investigator and published it on July 18, 2016, just three weeks before the 2016 Summer Olympics. The investigation report provides evidence of the systematic involvement of government agencies in organized doping on. It was also proven that the Russian domestic secret service FSB was involved.

First McLaren report

Findings of the report

  • In the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, under the influence of government agencies, doping samples from Russian athletes were systematically manipulated to protect against positive tests.
  • At the anti-doping laboratory in Sochi, a method was used that enabled doped Russian athletes to participate in the Olympic Games.
  • The Russian Ministry of Sport, headed by Vitaly Mutko , directed and controlled the manipulation processes with the active participation of the FSB, CSP (Center of Sports Preparation of National Teams of Russia) and the two anti-doping laboratories in Moscow and Sochi.

consequences

McLaren waived a recommendation on how to deal with Russian athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics, but with the report it put pressure on the International Olympic Committee headed by Thomas Bach . The exclusion of the athletes had meanwhile landed at the International Court of Sport (CAS), a decision was planned for July 21, 2016. The IOC around Bach therefore initially waited for the CAS decision. After the exclusion of track and field athletes was confirmed by the CAS, the IOC delegated the decision on Russian athletes from other sports to the leading international associations of the sports concerned, stipulating the criteria according to which participation should not be allowed. 111 Russian athletes (including the 67 athletes who were not individually tested) were then banned from the Russian Olympic team by the leading associations . 278 athletes were admitted, e.g. In some cases only at the last minute, after the CAS found a requirement of the IOC that Russian athletes who had previously been banned for doping should also be excluded as a retroactive increase in penalties were wrong.

The International Paralympic Committee then banned the entire Russian team from the 2016 Paralympic Summer Games . The then Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko announced that he would take legal action against the decision of the IPC.

Second McLaren report

Findings of the report

On December 9, 2016, the second McLaren report for the World Anti-Doping Agency was published. This assumes that more than 1000 Russian athletes have doped themselves or have benefited from the state's systematic doping cover-up. There was also an “institutional conspiracy” controlled by the Russian Ministry of Sports. In addition to the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and a. the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. The investigators base their findings on interviews with witnesses and the analysis of data sets, e-mails and more than 4000 Excel documents.

Russia rejected some of the allegations as politically motivated.

consequences

The International Olympic Committee planned to have all samples retested by Russian athletes from the London Olympics and the Sochi Winter Olympics. There were also increasing demands to exclude Russia from all other competitions.

On December 13, 2016, the responsible world association IBSF decided to have the combined bobsleigh and skeleton world championships , originally awarded to the Russian city of Sochi for February 2017, take place at a different location.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tagesschau.de: Russian team excluded from Paralympics. In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
  2. ^ "WADA publishes Independent McLaren Investigation Report Part II | World Anti-Doping Agency ”. Accessed December 10, 2016. https://www.wada-ama.org/en/media/news/2016-12/wada-publishes-independent-mclaren-investigation-report-part-ii .
  3. ↑ Johannes Aumüller, Thomas Kistner: Doping: How the McLaren Report protects the state and the World Cup . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 30, 2016]).
  4. ↑ a b "WADA report: More than 1000 Russian athletes doped | tagesschau.de ". Accessed December 10, 2016. http://www.tagesschau.de/sport/wada-doping-bericht-105.html .
  5. ^ "State doping in Russia: follow-up tests for hundreds of Olympians | tagesschau.de ". Accessed December 10, 2016. http://www.tagesschau.de/sport/wada-doping-russland-103.html .
  6. ↑ IBSF decided to move the IBSF World Championships 2017. ISBF press release of December 13, 2016, accessed on the same day (English)
  7. ^ Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association withdraws the World Cup from Sochi. Spiegel Online, December 13, 2016, accessed on the same day