New ARD Show Due Before IAAF & Olympics Bosses Give Thumbs Up Or Down To Doping

The IAAF and IOC leaderships will have one more ARD German TV documentary to consider before the track and field federation makes its June 17 decision on whether to allow Russian track and field back in the race at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this August.

The decision will be made against a backdrop of overwhelming evidence of systematic cheating that binds blazer to doping result like no other scandal has since the days of the German Democratic Republic and State Plan 14:25.

Russia, also host to football’s World Cup in 2018 in a world also under legal scrutiny and under the shadow of allegations of fraud and corruption among the leadership and dealmakers of FIFA, faces exclusion from the Games.

The case for confirming the first single sport/whole-nation ban on the basis of systematic doping is strong, while the evidence that Russia has cut the lifeline to rogues doctors and coaches is weak, according to ARD’s “Red Herrings” documentary last month.

Now, ARD’s Sportschau investigations team, led by journalist Hajo Seppelt, is about to reveal its latest findings from four months of research since the second WADA Commission report had former IAAF boss Liame Diack telling the world that he had to cut a deal with Vladimir Putin in order to get Russian dopers barred. Putin, right, is pictured at the home Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, when Russian doping samples are alleged to have been switched through a hole in a laboratory wall when international observers were not looking (see below).

The evidence that negotiation has taken place between politicians state and sport when positive doping tests are returned rings a death knell over the Olympic Movement and its sports.

“The Secret World of Doping“, from Hajo Seppelt, Florian Riese Wieck and Felix Becker, will be aired on ARD on Wednesday June 8, a week ahead of an IAAF vote …

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