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Story highlights Vladimir Putin wants Russian investigation, cooperation throughout international sports bodiesIOC chief says IAAF must determine in Russia punishmentClean athletes "should not necessarily be used into suspicion," Bach saysAnd therefore far, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach continues for you to be proven correct.

In his first feedback since your scandal became public, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that his country will conduct its own investigation and can cooperate using international sports governing bodies, according to state news agency Sputnik News.

According into a Sputnik news translation, Putin said: "[Russia] should do every small thing possible to be able to protect [its] athletes via banned substances ... Currently we now have this inquiry about athletics, your international federation will draw its conclusion and will go in advance and take necessary measures.

"I consider in addition which Russia will cooperate to make progress and to become sure that Russian athletics are compliant along with WADA.

"We will nearly often be open to collaboration effortlessly international bodies and also willing to carry on comprehensive help to virtually any initiatives directed at eradication regarding doping," the actual committee mentioned in a statement.

It furthermore referred to as about the IOC and IAAF not really to take measures that will ban Russian athletes who've not necessarily been associated with doping coming from participating in international competitions.

Bach mentioned he believed Sebastian Coe, the newest IAAF president, would "do whatever can be necessary" for you to ensure the activity has been cleaned up.

He declined to always be able to comment about suggestions the present situation could indicate the existence of a a lot wider scale of corruption within globe athletics.

"Again, this may be speculation," he said. because the competition needs to be able to be fair along with promote sportsmanship."

Putin ended up being addressing your heads regarding Russian sports federations with a meeting in Sochi.

Bach had earlier said he expected Russia to become "compliant" using global doping regulations in time pertaining to its athletes to be able to compete at the next Olympic Games.

Speaking to always be able to New Zealand television channel 3News, Bach said he wouldn't "speculate" on regardless regarding whether Russian athletes should be banned from the 2016 Video Games following a damning record alleged state-backed cheating.

He mentioned it would end up being up to the International Association associated with Athletics Federations (IAAF) for you to choose regardless involving whether this kind of punishment ended up being necessary. An impartial world Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission report provides suggested a new ban.

d**k Pound, the actual former WADA president which led your investigation, said such a move would possess the backing of the corporation and added: "For your 2016 Olympics, our recommendation is that the Russian Federation is suspended.

"One of our hopes can be which they will volunteer in which so they may undertake the remedial perform needed."

But Bach said: "I will not speculate about this.

. This specific is finished . that it wants being to always be able to participate in in the Olympic Games."

Russia's Olympic Committee said it would conduct activities in order to eradicate doping via sport and work in shut collaboration with the IOC, WADA and national Olympic committees from other countries and sports federations. "We should not consider clean athletes directly into suspicion."

On Tuesday, WADA withdrew your credentials of your Moscow laboratory caught up in the scandal.

The record suggested your laboratory had "been concerned inside a widespread coverup" regarding positive doping exams as well as stated 1,417 trials that WADA had desired to always be stored had been targeted with regard to "intentional and malicious destruction."

The WADA statement additionally referenced allegations made through the Das Erste documentary broadcast through ZDF/ARD a yr ago which payments had been made to the lab to cover up positive tests.

Grigory Rodchenkov, who resigned as head of the Moscow lab Tuesday, advised CNN's Matthew Likelihood he had simply stepped down to conserve the facility's reputation.

Meanwhile, former IAAF president Lamine Diack stated he had resigned his honorary membership in the IOC.

French police are investigating the 82-year-old over allegations he took bribes to pay up positive drugs exams in the particular program of his amount of period in cost with the IAAF.

Diack's son Papa Massata, his legal adviser Habib Cisse along with Gabriel Dolle, an ex-IAAF anti-doping chief, in addition are generally below investigation.

Diack spent 16 many years throughout charge of the IAAF, together with his reign ending when Coe was elected inside August.

The IOC confirmed it had provisionally suspended Diack.

A statement said: "The executive board made the decision this afternoon in order to confirm your proposal with the IOC ethics commission in order to provisionally suspend Mr Lamine Diack, the particular former president involving IAAF, through his honorary membership with the IOC."

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CNN's Alexander Felton contributed to be able to this report