SHOWS: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (NOVEMBER 9, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DICK POUND, FORMER WADA PRESIDENT, SAYING: “We’ve identified a number of suspicious cases and brought the facts and the identities of the persons involved to the attention of the proper authorities. We have made findings and recommendations regarding the Moscow laboratory and the Russian RUSADA. We have reported on interference with doping controls on many occasions, not just in the past but up to and including the middle of this year, well after it was known that this investigation was underway. We found cover-ups, we found destruction of samples in the laboratories, we found payments of money in order to conceal the results doping tests among others.” // “What we hope is that Russia will seize the opportunity to move forward and take a lead in attacking a problem that has the potential to destroy sport.” // “For 2016 our recommendation is that the Russian federation be suspended. In fact one of our hopes is that they will volunteer that so that they can take the remedial work in time to make sure that Russian athletes can compete under a new framework if you like. If they don’t then it has to play itself out and the outcome may be that there are no Russian track and field athletes in Rio. I hope that they recognise that it’s time to change and make those changes. “Technically the athletes have always been the ones that got caught, they are the ones who have had the doping substances in their systems. In many cases it’s part of a system where they have no practical choice, if they want to participate and have access to coaching you follow the regime or you’re out. You can be left out just generally or you can be left out under some prejudice. They’re part of the problem but it’s not a problem that they have created.“c