The second part of Richard McLaren’s report into the Russian doping scandal is to be published on December 9, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Sunday.
The date was confirmed by WADA in a Twitter post from its Foundation Board meeting in Glasgow.
Canadian lawyer McLaren was appointed by WADA as an independent investigator to look into allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russia.
The first part of his report in July led to calls for Russia to be given a blanket ban from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in August.
That report concluded that the Moscow anti-doping laboratory “operated for the protection of doped Russian athletes, within a state-dictated failsafe system.”
The International Olympic Committee decided against an overall ban on Russia at the Games although Russia was completely banned from the later Paralympic Games.
Craig Reedie was meanwhile re-elected for a second three-year term as WADA president.
Reedie was the sole candidate for the post in the election by members of the WADA Foundation Board.
The Norwegian sport and culture minister, Linda Helleland, was elected vice-president.
Reedie, 75, had come in for criticism from national Olympic committees (ANOC) last week over WADA’s handling of the Russian doping scandal in the build-up to the 2016 Rio Games.
Critics had also pointed to a conflict of interest as Reedie is also an IOC member and was on its powerful executive board as vice-president until August.
Influential ANOC president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah called for “neutral leadership of the reform of the organization.” (dpa/NAN)
