Pound says Russia still has ‘credibility’ issue ahead of Olympics

LONDON: Former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound said on Thursday (Friday in Manila) that it would be “very hard” to trust any Russian athlete at this year’s Olympics Games in Rio should the country succeed in overturning its ban from international competition.

It was a report produced by an independent commission chaired by Pound, following undercover reporting by German broadcaster ARD, that led to Russia being suspended from all international competition in November after what the Canadian said was a programme of “state-sponsored doping”.