俄罗斯恐因兴奋剂报告禁止参加里奥奥运会

AS IT IS 2016-07-19 Russia Could Be Banned From Rio Games After Doping Report 俄罗斯恐因兴奋剂报告禁止参加里奥奥运会

The World Anti-Doping Agency, also known as WADA, has called for banning Russian athletes from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

WADA called for the ban after confirming that the Russian government worked to cover up doping among its athletes.

Richard McLaren is a Canadian lawyer. He spent 57 days preparing the report for WADA. The report says the Russian government helped the athletes cheat by hiding test results and changing urine samples leading up to both the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2014 Sochi Games.

Thomas Bach is the president of the International Olympic Committee, or IOC. He called Russia’s actions a “shocking and unprecedented¹ attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games.”

The IOC will meet on Tuesday to discuss a punishment for the Russian Olympic team. It says it will study the report and “not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organization.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin says officials named in the report will be suspended. The Associated Press news agency says sports minister Vitaly Mutko and his deputy are both named in the report.

McLaren said his report showed only a “thin slice” of the cheating within the Russian Olympic team.

He found evidence “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the Russian government participated in a program designed to help its athletes use performance-enhancing drugs without being caught. He called the program “fail-safe.”

McLaren’s report confirms allegations made by the former head of anti-doping in Russia.

Earlier this year, Grigory Rodchenkov told the New York Times that 15 Russian medal-winners from the Sochi Olympics alone were part of a urine-switching program.

In that program, athletes provided clean urine samples to government agents. Those agents then replaced tainted³ urine with clean urine after competitions.

In late 2015, the International Association of Athletics⁴ Federations⁵ banned Russia’s track and field athletes from competition after a different WADA investigation⁶.

Travis Tygart is the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. In a statement on Monday, Tygart called the McLaren report “mind-blowing.” He said the international community should come together “to ensure this unprecedented level of criminality never again threatens the sports we cherish.”

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cherish – v. to feel or show great love for (someone or something)

taint² – adj. something that becomes dangerous or dirty especially by adding something harmful or undesirable⁷ to it

medal – n. a piece of metal often in the form of a coin with designs and words in honor of a special event, a person, or an achievement

allegation – n. a statement saying that someone has done something wrong or illegal

performance-enhancing – adj. something that is added (a drug or chemical) to make a person perform better than expected

doubt – n. a feeling of being uncertain or unsure about something

slice – n. a small part of something larger

ban – v. to forbid (someone) from doing or being part of something — usually + from

sanction – n. an action that is taken or an order that is given to force a country to obey international laws by limiting or stopping trade with that country, by not allowing economic aid for that country, etc. — usually plural⁸

doping – n. the illegal use of a drug (such as a steroid) to improve an athlete's performance

1 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

2 taint   

n.污点；感染；腐坏；v.使感染；污染

参考例句：

• Everything possible should be done to free them from the economic taint.应尽可能把他们从经济的腐蚀中解脱出来。
• Moral taint has spread among young people.道德的败坏在年轻人之间蔓延。

3 tainted   

adj.腐坏的；污染的；沾污的；感染的v.使变质( taint的过去式和过去分词 )；使污染；败坏；被污染，腐坏，败坏

参考例句：

• The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
• He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 athletics   

n.运动，体育，田径运动

参考例句：

• When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.我上学的时候体育十分糟糕。
• Our team tied with theirs in athletics.在田径比赛中，我们队与他们队旗鼓相当。

5 federations   

n.联邦( federation的名词复数 )；同盟；联盟；联合会

参考例句：

• These problems are women's special problems and special work of women's federations. 这样的问题，就是妇女的特殊问题，就是妇联的特殊工作。 来自互联网
• The Bridge Federate is a feasible solution to achieve multi-federations interconnection. 基于桥接成员实现多联邦互连是目前较为通用和可行的方法。 来自互联网

6 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

7 undesirable   

adj.不受欢迎的，不良的，不合意的，讨厌的；n.不受欢迎的人，不良分子

参考例句：

• They are the undesirable elements among the employees.他们是雇员中的不良分子。
• Certain chemicals can induce undesirable changes in the nervous system.有些化学物质能在神经系统中引起不良变化。

8 plural   

n.复数；复数形式；adj.复数的

参考例句：

• Most plural nouns in English end in's '.英语的复数名词多以s结尾。
• Here you should use plural pronoun.这里你应该用复数代词。