• Report says six Russian athletes should not have competed at 2012 games
• Review led by Dick Pound calls for Russia to be banned from athleticsThe London Olympics were “sabotaged” by Russian athletes who doped and the inaction of authorities to prevent them competing,according to a remarkable report which casts a meaningful shadow over the 2012 Games.
An independent commission headed by Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, or states that six Russian athletes should not have competed at London 2012 because they recorded abnormal results in their blood biological passports beforehand. Two of them,Mariya Savinova and Ekaterina Poistogova, won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 800m.
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Source: theguardian.com