Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR) Invitation Review Panel releases list of information used as part of its deliberations
The Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR) OAR Invitation Review Panel released on 25 Janury 2018 a summary of some of the key elements of information used by the Panel during its deliberations, which determined the pool of Russian athletes who could be invited by the IOC to take part in the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 as OARs.
The Panel determined that the time was now right to publish the information used, following a meeting between the IOC and representatives of the suspended Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) during which the final list of athletes who can be invited was shared by the IOC; and this will, on 27 January, be confirmed by the OAR Chef de Mission at the OAR Delegation Registration Meeting in PyeongChang. Only athletes who have fulfilled the Pre-Games Testing requirements (including additional ones decided by the Panel), as well as the required reanalysis from stored samples, will be accredited for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.
The Panel, which is chaired by Dr Valérie Fourneyron, the Chair of the International Testing Agency (ITA) and former French Sports Minister, includes Mr Günter Younger, Director of Intelligence and Investigations (I&I) for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA); Mr Pedro Goncalves, GAISF DFSU Project Manager in charge of the Pre-Games Testing Task Force secretariat; and Dr Richard Budgett, Olympic rowing champion and IOC Medical and Scientific Director. The role of the Panel was to make sure that only athletes from Russia who were considered clean could be invited to participate in the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.
