World Sailing and Rio

so sailors do dope..(shocking!..): ......One athlete, Pavel Sozykin (470 helm), was denied eligibility, based upon the findings of the McLaren Investigation Report
http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/191138/Six-Russian-athletes-confirmed-to-sail-at-Rio

Does anyone know what Pavel Sozykin was found to have taken? None of the reports I've found contain that information.

Thanks, so the Maclaren report says of itself:

"The third paragraph of the IP’s mandate, identifying athletes who benefited from
the manipulations, has not been the primary focus of the IP’s work. The IP
investigative team has developed evidence identifying dozens of Russian
athletes who appear to have been involved in doping. The compressed timeline
of the IP investigation did not permit compilation of data to establish an antidoping
rule violation. The time limitation required the IP to deem this part of
the mandate of lesser priority. The IP concentrated on the other four directives of
the mandate."

"Appear to" seems a weak basis for a ban on an individual sailor and another thing that bothers me is a 470 helm would seem about the least likely to benefit from the common forms of doping.

Are we in the realms of "something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done"?


Edited by blueboy - 28 Jul 16 at 12:33pm

I'm not in favour of collective punishments and WADA should be ashamed of itself for that recommendation.

But while the Maclaren report establishes systematic concealment of positive results, the paragraph I quoted above indicates it is not a sound basis for individual bans.