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By Owen Gibson on July 31st, 2016
Anti-doping groups say IOC put politics and business ahead of clean sport
• Criticism of ‘ill-conceived’ response to state-sponsored doping in Russia• ‘Confusing patchwork of conflicting instructions issued to sport federations’
Thirteen national anti-doping organisations from around the world have given a damning verdict on the International Olympic Committee’s “hasty and ill-conceived” response to state-sponsored doping in Russia and accused its leaders of being open to political and commercial influence at the expense of clean sport.
Related: Russian doping scandal: ‘When it mattered most, the IOC failed to lead’
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