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Russian Official Apologizes for Doping Problem but Says Athletes Shouldn’t Be Barred

May 16, 2016

Peter Don­nel­ly, the direc­tor of the Cen­tre for Sport Pol­i­cy Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, said on Sun­day that Mr. Mutko had touched on a legit­i­mate prob­lem with how dop­ing vio­la­tions are han­dled by sports gov­ern­ing bod­ies. The Inter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee and world sport fed­er­a­tions need to find ways to tar­get pun­ish­ments at those who are com­plic­it in an athlete’s dop­ing, Dr. Don­nel­ly said, adding, “It’s dif­fi­cult for me to see how pun­ish­ing all pend­ing Russ­ian Olympic track and field ath­letes can be con­sid­ered as jus­tice.” Read more.