The Commission of the International Olympic Committee has collected enough evidence to bring charges in doping to several Russian athletes who participated in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, reports the Main with reference to Radio Liberty. The head of the commission, Denis Oswald, expects in several days to receive the results of inspections of fifty containers with samples. Together with other evidence, they must show whether Russia tried to hide the use of banned substances by sportsmen. Two special commissions of the International Olympic Committee. They promised to provide the results of the work before the end of the year. From their conclusions depends the participation of Russian athletes in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in 2018. The head of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, said that it is necessary to punish specific guilty parties.

On September 14, the national anti-doping agencies of seventeen countries, including the US and Britain, demanded that Russia be removed from the Olympics in connection with the doping scandal. Report of the independent commission of Richard McLaren on state support of doping in Russia was published two years ago. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said in September that Russia has never recognized and does not recognize the involvement of the authorities and special services in concealing positive doping tests.