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- Updated: July 23, 2016
Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, faces scrutiny in his own country this coming week, as the movement he leads votes on whether to impose a blanket ban on Russia for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games or go for a soft-option compromise that will anger many leading Olympians, coaches and officials in the world of elite sport.
Today over at the Sport and Politics website under the headline “The IOC, the olympic family and the absolutely impeccable reputation of KGB/FSB agents”, German journalist Jens Weinreich takes an explosive look at what he calls the “astonishing deep links at the heart of the Olympic movement, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the secret services of the Soviet Union (KGB) and Russia (FSB)”.
Take these aextracts and you get an idea of the scale of threat to the Olympic Movement the Russian doping crisis actually is:
“Vladimir Putin is the most famous (former) KGB agent in the world and the (former) head of the KGB’s successor, FSB (1998-1999). Mr Putin was rightly described as the most powerful man in the Olympic world over the last decade. This has probably changed but he is still a major factor in the Olympic business. On Friday, Mr Putin announced a “proposal to the Russian Olympic Committee” … on establishing an independent – this is very important – public commission that would include both Russian and foreign experts in medicine and law, as well as respected public and sports activists and experts. The commission’s key task would be to quickly develop a national anti-doping plan that involves strict oversight of its implementation.”
“Mr Putin – Honorary President of International Judo Federation (IJF); Honorary President of the European Judo Union (EJU); Honorary President of the International Federation of Sambo (FIAS), a sport developed in the Red Army and the KGB in the Soviet Union; holder of the black belt in karate; holder of the 8th dan of judo; Master of Sports in judo; honorary doctorate in judo from Yong In university; and Master of Sports in Sambo (among other titles) – made a second, for want of a better word, recommendation:
“The question is, of course, who would head the commission? Clearly, the answer is a person with an …
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