Putin: we ourselves gave rise to the doping scandal
The leadership of Russian sports made a number of serious mistakes and gave rise to a doping scandal.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this today at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports.
“Yes, of course, we see significant politicization of this area, and sometimes, as I have already said about this, a biased attitude towards our athletes. But we must admit that we ourselves gave the reason for this, we ourselves made a number of mistakes and miscalculations in this most important and very sensitive area. There are really a lot of problems here: there are ours, there are common ones for world sports, which need to be solved in close cooperation with our partners,” the Kremlin’s official website quotes Putin.
He emphasized that Russia and other countries are interested in the existing international anti-doping system becoming transparent and open.
Putin : We ourselves gave rise to the doping scandal