Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Ex-president VFLA: doping – one way to denigrate the Russian sport in the light of the political situation – BBC

04.11.2015, 21:45

The former head of the Russian Athletics Federation ( VFLA) Valentin Balakhnichev opined that doping is one of the ways that you can blacken the Russian sport, and this is due to the current political situation.

On November 4, it became known that the ex-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF ) Lamine Diack and his lawyer arrested on suspicion of taking bribes from the Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) for concealing doping cases Russian athletes.

«In general bias against Russian sport is. Russian sports – part of state policy. The sanctions are hitting the most vulnerable places: oil and gas. Sports – part of state policy. Traced the chain – gas, oil, and where we have been successful – sports. Sports need to blacken. A method of blackening – doping. The fight against doping is not of a general nature, it is targeted. We have chosen as the goal of struggle. Grasp the other country with such zeal, the other country will be in the same position. They chose Russia because in general such a political situation “, – quotes Balahnicheva « R-Sport ».

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