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Added on the 11/02/2022 14:41:21 - Copyright : France 24 EN
It's time for the Olympics! NBA basketball player Tony Parker arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, alongside both the Mens and Womens French Olympic basketball teams. The San Antonio Spurs star will lead the French Mens team in the 2016 Rio Olympics, and French supporters have high hopes for the decorated NBA player to lead their team to victory in the Olympic tournament.
Speaking in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian Minister of Sports Vitali Mutko commented on the World Anti-Doping Agency's report which alleges to have uncovered state-sponsored doping programmes for Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He slammed WADA, saying that it became a "punitive organisation" and it "places itself above the movement: it dictates the rules, it extends the lists and includes an endless amount of medication into the lists, it doesn't care about athletes, about their health".
Professor Richard McLaren presented the findings of his World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commissioned report into allegations of Russian state sponsored doping at a conference in Toronto on Monday. He described the methodology allegedly used by Russian authorities to cover up doping by the country's athletes at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
Professor Richard McLaren presented the findings of his World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commissioned report into allegations of Russian state sponsored doping at a conference in Toronto on Monday. He found ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ that the “Russian Minister of Sport directed, controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athletes positive results” with the assistance of both labs and Russian security services.
Professor Richard McLaren presented the findings of his World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commissioned report into allegations of Russian state sponsored doping at a conference in Toronto on Monday. He found ‘beyond reasonable doubts that the Russian Minister of Sport directed, controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athletes positive results with the assistance of both labs and Russian security services
Professor Richard McLaren presented the findings of his World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commissioned report into allegations of Russian state sponsored doping at a conference in Toronto on Monday. He described the methodology allegedly used by Russian authorities to cover up doping by the country's athletes at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.