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Link to watch the live stream of IOC President Thomas Bach's press conference (scheduled to start in 15 mins.; ETA: now archived - just over one hour long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oyb1Oj-vDM
Live blog: https://www.insidethegames.biz/arti...tive-board-decision-on-russian-doping-scandal
(Note: I have since edited the title of the thread and this first post after the initial announcement was made and added additional news items from Dec. 5 & 6 below).
ETA from InsidetheGames' live blog:
BREAKING: Russian athletes to compete under neutral flag at Pyeongchang 2018
The Russian Olympic Committee have been suspended and athletes from Russia will compete under a neutral flag at Pyeongchang 2018, the IOC Executive Board have ruled.
IOC's official press release: IOC SUSPENDS RUSSIAN NOC AND CREATES A PATH FOR CLEAN INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES TO COMPETE IN PYEONGCHANG 2018 UNDER THE OLYMPIC FLAG
Excerpt (second half):
How the athletes will be chosen:
To invite individual Russian athletes to the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 according to the following guidelines:
He continued: "As an athlete myself, I feel very sorry for all the clean athletes from all NOCs who are suffering from this manipulation. Working with the IOC Athletes’ Commission, we will now look for opportunities to make up for the moments they have missed on the finish line or on the podium."
Links:
Decision of the IOC EB
Report of the Schmid Commission
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Now it's up to Russia & Putin to decide the fate of their Olympic hopeful athletes... Putin has yet to make an official statement on this topic following today's IOC decision, so stay tuned.
ETA on Dec. 6: From the Associated Press:
"MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will not stop the country's athletes from competing at Pyeongchang Olympics."
https://twitter.com/jellingworth/status/938430663245606912
Russian figure skating federation president Alexander Gorshkov was quoted as saying that a decision regarding their figure skaters competing at the Olympics will not be made until after the Grand Prix Final: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...eongchang-olympics.102516/page-6#post-5204602
A link to the full text of Evgenia Medvedva's speech in front of the IOC's Executive Board is posted here: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...eongchang-olympics.102516/page-5#post-5204537
Thanks to @Ka3sha for this link to her talking to reporters afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5YjrY7QOA
Live blog: https://www.insidethegames.biz/arti...tive-board-decision-on-russian-doping-scandal
(Note: I have since edited the title of the thread and this first post after the initial announcement was made and added additional news items from Dec. 5 & 6 below).
ETA from InsidetheGames' live blog:
BREAKING: Russian athletes to compete under neutral flag at Pyeongchang 2018
The Russian Olympic Committee have been suspended and athletes from Russia will compete under a neutral flag at Pyeongchang 2018, the IOC Executive Board have ruled.
IOC's official press release: IOC SUSPENDS RUSSIAN NOC AND CREATES A PATH FOR CLEAN INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES TO COMPETE IN PYEONGCHANG 2018 UNDER THE OLYMPIC FLAG
Excerpt (second half):
How the athletes will be chosen:
To invite individual Russian athletes to the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 according to the following guidelines:
- The invitation list will be determined, at its absolute discretion, by a panel chaired by Valerie Fourneyron, Chair of the ITA. The panel will include members of the Pre-Games Testing Task Force: one appointed by WADA, one by the DFSU and one by the IOC, Dr Richard Budgett.
- This panel will be guided in its decisions by the following principles:
- It can only consider athletes who have qualified according to the qualification standards of their respective sport.
- Athletes must be considered clean to the satisfaction of this panel:
- Athletes must not have been disqualified or declared ineligible for any Anti-Doping Rule Violation.
- Athletes must have undergone all the pre-Games targeted tests recommended by the Pre-Games Testing Task Force.
- Athletes must have undergone any other testing requirements specified by the panel to ensure a level playing field.
- Athletes must not have been disqualified or declared ineligible for any Anti-Doping Rule Violation.
- These invited athletes will participate, be it in individual or team competitions, in the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 under the name “Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR)”. They will compete with a uniform bearing this name and under the Olympic Flag. The Olympic Anthem will be played in any ceremony.
- These invited athletes will enjoy the same technical and logistical support as any other Olympic athlete.
- The panel, at its absolute discretion, will determine an invitation list for support staff and officials.
- This panel will be guided in its decisions by the following principles:
- No member of the leadership of the Russian Olympic Team at the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 can be included on the invitation list.
- No coach or medical doctor whose athlete has been found to have committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation can be included on the invitation list. All coaches and medical doctors included on the invitation list must sign a declaration to this effect.
- Any other requirement considered necessary to protect the integrity of the Olympic Games.
- No member of the leadership of the Russian Olympic Team at the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 can be included on the invitation list.
- The IOC, at its absolute discretion, will ultimately determine the support staff and officials to be invited from the list.
- It can only consider athletes who have qualified according to the qualification standards of their respective sport.
He continued: "As an athlete myself, I feel very sorry for all the clean athletes from all NOCs who are suffering from this manipulation. Working with the IOC Athletes’ Commission, we will now look for opportunities to make up for the moments they have missed on the finish line or on the podium."
Links:
Decision of the IOC EB
Report of the Schmid Commission
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Now it's up to Russia & Putin to decide the fate of their Olympic hopeful athletes... Putin has yet to make an official statement on this topic following today's IOC decision, so stay tuned.
ETA on Dec. 6: From the Associated Press:
"MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will not stop the country's athletes from competing at Pyeongchang Olympics."
https://twitter.com/jellingworth/status/938430663245606912
Russian figure skating federation president Alexander Gorshkov was quoted as saying that a decision regarding their figure skaters competing at the Olympics will not be made until after the Grand Prix Final: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...eongchang-olympics.102516/page-6#post-5204602
A link to the full text of Evgenia Medvedva's speech in front of the IOC's Executive Board is posted here: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...eongchang-olympics.102516/page-5#post-5204537
Thanks to @Ka3sha for this link to her talking to reporters afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5YjrY7QOA
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