McLaren Report

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris take a quick look at The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) deciding to not re-impose a suspension on Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, despite Moscow missing a deadline to hand over laboratory data.
In its decision, and facing immense pressure from western anti-Russian institutions, WADA’s Compliance Review Committee (CRC) decided RUSADA would not be treated any differently than other members and ruled against sanctions.
Jonathan Taylor, chair of the CRC during a conference call said…

Regarding the McLaren Report and the Politicization of Doping in Sports By Rick Sterling | American Herald Tribune | March 27, 2017 Russian track and field athletes, plus the entire Paralympics team, were banned from the Rio Games last summer. This was based on the first McLaren report commissioned by the World Anti Doping Agency […]

Dear WADA President Sir Craig Reedie and Executive Committee,
Dear IOC President Thomas Bach and Executive Committee,
I hope you will persevere and overcome the differences and disagreements between WADA and the International Olympic Committee and Russia. Many people around the world were displeased with the controversy last summer. The contentious situation and mutual accusations distracted from the Rio Olympics, reduced attendance and appeared to undermine the goals of the Olympic Charter against national discrimination.

As my colleague Sergey Gladysh has reported, the International Olympic Committee (“the IOC”) has circulated a letter which has quietly skewered Professor McLaren’s report on the doping scandal in Russian sport, and in which it confirms WADA’s admission that the McLaren report does not provide sufficient evidence in

The so-called McLaren report, which led to the partial suspension of the Russian Olympic team and the full suspension of the Russian Paralympic team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, is now being put into question by WADA itself, which has now admitted that “in many cases the evidence provided may not be sufficient to bring successful cases.”