Doping: Putin, Moscow will appeal

Russia will appeal against the Olympics and World Championships ban for the next four years decided by Wada, the world anti-doping agency: this was reported by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of the summit on Ukraine in Paris.

Responding to a question on the subject, Putin stated that "the most important thing is that every sanction, as it has been since the time of Roman law, must be individual" for facts committed by this or that person ". But there cannot be "collective sanctions".

Former Russian pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva branded the sanctions of world anti-doping agency Wada as "cruel" and "murderers", which decided to ban Russia for four years from international competitions for falsifying data laboratory delivered to investigators last January. "These sanctions are cruel, unfair, atrocious and murderous for Russian sport," the Olympic champion wrote on Instagram. "For me - he continued - it is difficult to understand, I wonder how Wada can defend the rights of clean Russian athletes, asking them to compete under the neutral flag".