was to further discuss the issue where joined live by dave lindorff investigative journalist and founding editor of the online newspaper this can't be happening dave thanks for being with us here on r t international were talking just before you came on crazy circumstances here the i.o.c. disciplinary commission's report has found no evidence of state sponsored doping let's listen to how this has been formulated in the report take a listen. nevertheless the independent and impartial evidence do not allow the i.o.c. d.c. to establish with certitude either who initiated or who headed this scheme on many occasions reference was made on the involvement at the minister of sports level but no indication independent or impartial evidence appeared to cooperate any involvement or knowledge at a higher level of the state all right so there it is in writing from the report why did they ban that russian sports officials for life from attending the winter olympics if they found no evidence of state knowledge of the matter well you know you have to realize that a lot of countries have organized. doping