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LONDON (AP) — IOC President Thomas Bach says whole Russian games leagues could be suspended if charges of state-upheld doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics are demonstrated.
Bach says in a commentary piece Wednesday that allegations that Russian authorities subverted the medication testing framework at the Winter Games "speak to a stunning new measurement in doping" and an "incredible level of culpability."
He says if the charges are observed to be valid, assents could incorporate lifetime Olympic bans, extreme budgetary punishments and "suspension or prohibition of whole national leagues" like the one officially forced by the IAAF on Russia's olympic style events program.
Bach's announcement comes a day after the IOC declared that 31 competitors could be banned from the current year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after their doping tests from the 2008 Beijing Games returned positive in retests.
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