{"id":252,"date":"2017-03-16T12:28:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/?p=252"},"modified":"2017-03-16T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:28:26","slug":"russian-doctor-banned-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/featured\/russian-doctor-banned-for-life","title":{"rendered":"Russian Doctor banned for life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr Sergei Portugalo, a Russian doctor, has been banned for life from involvement in athletics.<\/p>\n

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Dr Sergei Portugalo Banned for life<\/h3>\n

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has stated that\u00a0 there is “clear evidence” that Dr Sergei Portugalov doped athletes.<\/p>\n

A WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) report from 2015, made very strong indications that the Russian doctor was “very active in the conspiracy to cover up athletes’ positive tests in exchange for a percentage of their winnings”.<\/p>\n

“As a consequence, a lifetime period of ineligibility has been imposed,” Cas said.<\/p>\n

Last year’s Wada-commissioned McLaren report said more than 1,000 Russia sportsmen and women had benefitted from a state-sponsored doping programme.<\/p>\n

Russian athletes are banned from competition by athletics’ governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), until it is happy the country’s anti-doping measures stand up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Russia’s anti-doping agency, Rusada, is also working to have its credentials restored.<\/p>\n

Senior figures in athletics and at Wada have welcomed Russia’s work on restoring its anti-doping programme but have stressed the country still has a lot to do.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a Wada conference on Monday, the organisation’s president, Craig Reedie, said: “There remains significant work to do. It must demonstrate its processes are autonomous and independent from outside interference.”<\/p>\n

Russia’s sports minister Pavel Kolobkov also spoke at the meeting to outline progress made – including changes to legislation criminalising doping in sport.<\/p>\n

He added: “We are ready to pass any kind of external inspection.”<\/p>\n

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