WADA head urged to return the athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus the right to compete in competitions

According to Richard Mclarene, Russian and Belarusian athletes did not start a conflict between the countries and are not responsible for its continuation. Therefore, the ban on participation in the competition is unfair. Following the armed invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended the world sports federations to eliminate Russian and Belarussian athletes from participation in international competitions.

However, now, according to the German Sportschau magazine, the chairman of the Independent Commission of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA), Richard McLaren has called for a boycott from Russian athletes and to allow them to competition. McLaren criticized the decisions of the organizers of European Summer Sports Championships in Munich to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from participation in international competitions. "The way they treat them unfairly.

The athletes were not initiators of this conflict and are not responsible for its course. These are two good reasons to allow them to participate again," McLaren said, who had previously held a rather rigid position on Russian athletes . The WADA Head also expects that athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus will contact the International Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) to defend their right to participate in competitions.

"If CAS makes a decision in favor of athletes, the federations will be forced to allow them to participate again in the competitions," he said. Earlier it was reported that the International Federation of Swimming (FINA) has banned participating in transgender competitions that made a transition after 12 years. The decision was made in connection with the scandal that broke up with the American transgender fuel Lai Thomas, who beat several national records, moving to the women's team.