IOC chief Thomas Bach’s response to McLaren report will determine his legacy

Thomas Bach’s response to a report that found Russia hid many positive doping tests ahead of the Sochi Winter Games will determine his gift as International Olympic Committee president, athletes leaders aforesaid on Mon.
The IOC secure the “toughest sanctions available” following the discharge of the report, that revealed evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes.
IOC Athletes Commission member Adam Pengilly, a British skeleton racer, urged Bach to follow the advice of the WADA report and ban all Russian competitors from the urban center olympics.
“I call upon the leadership of the IOC to follow informed the recommendations and enact it, and not exploit technicalities,” he aforesaid in an exceedingly telephone call on Mon featuring members of the WADA Athletes Commission and IOC athletes group
Step up and do what’s right.”
Pengilly said the IOC would lose credibility if it did not do thus.
“I think the planet at massive can check out United States of America,” he said. “The IOC is thought to be the custodians of the Olympic movement.
Only time can tell. but it should be a major a part of the history of the IOC, and Thomas Bach as president of the IOC and his time as its leader.”
WADA Athletes Commission member ben Sandford, a replacement zealand skeleton racer, said: “That people have gone to such efforts to subvert results and cheat the system is very stunning and very saddening.
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