LONDON, July 25 - RIA Novosti, Irina Chumakov. Deputy Minister of Sport and Tourism of the United Kingdom Tracey Crouch has called for more severe sanctions against Russian athletes, commenting on the decision of the IOC with regard to the Russian national team.
The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Sunday decided not to suspend the entire Russian team from the 2016 Olympics, leaving the international sports federations the right to determine who can perform at the Games in Rio, when the Russians several criteria. Russian athletes previously had problems with doping, they will not be allowed to participate in the Olympic Games.
Commenting on the decision of the IOC, Crouch, who is also a member of the WADA Foundation Board, said: "Although this is only a decision of the International Olympic Committee, the scale of evidence in McLaren's report, perhaps, indicates the need for stronger sanctions than the transfer of the international federations at this late stage" .
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"It is clear that a lot of work to maintain the integrity of sport at the international level needs to be done", - she said.
"It is clear that a lot of work to maintain the integrity of sport at the international level needs to be done", - she said.
The reaction of the British athletes
Skeletonist, IOC member from Great Britain Adam Pengilli participated in two Winter Olympics, commenting on the decision of the IOC, in an interview with BBC Sport has expressed the opinion that "Russia has deceived the Olympic movement," and expressed "concern for the purity of athletics in the future of the Olympic movement, and the Olympic games. "
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"Some have suggested that the IOC took off the responsibility, and I have to agree," - he added.
"In the eyes of the fans, it casts a shadow over the Olympic Movement for the last eighteen months the credibility of the sport of the highest achievements seriously undermined, and it (the decision of the IOC) does not contribute to the beginning of the restoration of confidence." - Also expressed an opinion in an interview with BBC Sport badmintonistka Susan Egelstaff, representing Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics.
British athlete, the record-holder Paula Radcliffe, in turn, noted that "would not welcome any athletes at the Olympic Games, which had previously been excluded because of doping, and it rightly belongs not only to the Russian athletes."
Another British athlete and Olympic champion Greg Rutherford called the decision of the IOC "spineless attempt to be a good guy for both sides." "We know all the pros and cons of a total ban, we know the risks" collective justice, "but we also know the risk of leaving unpunished doping culture, which comes from the top." "I would say that the latter is much more dangerous for the sport," - he told the Guardian newspaper.
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