The Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, on Sunday rejected allegations of doping leveled at the Russian athletes in a documentary by German television ARD broadcast on Saturday, he said result of a power struggle within the IAAF.
“It seems that someone is trying to ruin athletics spreading these stories,” said the minister, quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency. “In any case, it makes sense to start accusations based on this documentary.”
Vitaly Mutko believes that the closeness of the election of the new president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is no stranger to approach ARD documentary. “The election will take place in August and the struggle for power is soaring. We can not give in to panic, we must continue to work as normal. At present, no one really runs the IAAF, like a bazaar,” he said.
On Saturday, in a documentary entitled ‘Doping – Top Secret: the dark world of athletics’, the ARD put the magnifying glass on the Russians and Kenyan athletes. The chain aims to suspicions of doping with growth hormones on the Olympic 800 meters champion, Mariya Savinova, anabolic another specialist in the same distance, Anastasia Bazdireva, injections of “dangerous” doping products filmed by hidden camera in Kenya, a country where the “will to hide doping” would be present “at the top of the Athletics Federation.”
In a first reaction, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) acknowledged Sunday he was “very worried “and announced that” lengthen “research on the Russian athletics.
The World Athletics Championships begin in three weeks in Beijing.
AFP
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