MOSCOW - Russian National Paralympic Committee (NPC Russia) President Vladimir Lukin and Russian lawyers will attend the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) session on August 3, at which it will analyze the NPC Russia's dossier, and if the Russian team is barred from the 2016 Paralympic Games, Russia will file lawsuits with the European Court of Human Rights, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said.
“WADA’s report doesn’t even say a word about Paralympians, and yet the International Paralympic Committee all of a sudden calls a session for August 3 to consider the Russian Paralympic Committee’s dossier. Vladimir Petrovich Lukin will go to this session together with lawyers. If it makes a ruling that is negative for us, they will go to the human rights court in Strasbourg to file lawsuits,” Mutko said on the Match TV television channel.
“This is already unbearable, people go beyond the legal framework to attain their political ends through sport,” he added.
