Suggestions that the release of draft letters urging Russia's total ban from the Olympics have compromised the investigation into Russian doping are nonsense, an international anti-doping leader said Sunday. The Institute of National Anti-Doping Agencies is one of a handful of anti-doping and athletes' groups to draft letters calling for the ban. The back-and-forth this weekend about the draft letters illustrates the stakes of McLaren's report and the IOC's reaction to it. They plan to send the letters to the International Olympic Committee only if the investigation, due out Monday, reveals evidence of state-sponsored doping throughout Russian sports. Anti-doping leaders and groups of athletes are calling for a full Russian ban from the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro if McLaren's report substantiates and expands on preliminary findings that already have been released.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 17, 2016 21:56 UTC