| Statement of the International Olympic Committee on WADA report The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today received the World Anti-Doping Agencys Independent Person Report. The IOC will now carefully study the complex and detailed allegations, in particular with regard to the Russian Ministry of Sport. The findings of the report show a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games. Therefore, the IOC will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organisation implicated, IOC President Thomas Bach said.
In the immediate short term, the IOC Executive Board (EB) will convene in a telephone conference tomorrow to take its first decisions, which may include provisional measures and sanctions with regard to the Olympic Games Rio 2016. | 
