LONDON (AP) — Just as Russia’s track and field federation was suspended by the IAAF, some of the country’s winter sports bodies could be banned if allegations of state-supported doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics are proven, IOC President Thomas Bach said Wednesday.
Bach wrote in a newspaper op-ed piece that accusations that Russian officials subverted the drug-testing system at the Winter Games “represent a shocking new dimension in doping” and an “unimaginable level of criminality.”
Bach said the International Olympic Committee will act with “all the appropriate measures within its powers” to deal with claims by Russia’s former anti-doping director that he ran an organized doping program for Russian athletes at the Sochi Games and helped switch tainted samples for clean ones.