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European Short-Course Championships<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Glasgow, Day 5 Finals and Semi-Finals\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Vladimir Morozov\u00a0<\/strong>finished the European Short-Course Championships with seven gold medals after he won the 100m freestyle and rounded off the competition with the breaststroke leg as Russia delivered a thunderous title-winning performance in the men’s 4x50m medley relay.<\/p>\n

Teammate Kliment Kolesnikov<\/strong> made three trips to the top of the podium today to take his total to six gold medals as well as setting a new 50m backstroke championship record of 22.64 on the lead-off in the men’s 4x50m medley relay.<\/p>\n

Kolesnikov was named Best Male Performer with Kira Toussaint,<\/strong> the Netherlands backstroke specialist who won three golds among five medals, voted Best Female.<\/p>\n

Russia dominated the meet, with 13 golds among 22 medals. The Russians finished a close second in the Team Trophy race that grants points for gold, silver and bronze as well as all places in finals. Italy, with its entire national team in town, claimed the trophy with 1186 points to 1046 for Russia and with the hosts Great Britain, with only 11 swimmers racing and the likes of Adam Peaty<\/strong> bypassing the meet, third on 793. Russia topped the men’s points, while Italy’s women were a league apart own points.<\/p>\n

\"WADA\"The mood of celebration as the European Swimming League (LEN)<\/strong> event came to a close, especially among Russians and European federation governors, may not last long: the board of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)<\/strong> meets tomorrow<\/a> to decide whether to adopt the recommendations of the Compliance Review Committee (CRC)<\/strong> to impose four more years of penalties on all Russian sport in the wake of revelations of extensive manipulation off doping samples and data handed over to the doping guardians after a deadline had passed last January<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Phase two of the Russian doping scandal, systematic and deep-seated cheating in the mix according to inquiry findings at WADA and related investigations authorities, independent and otherwise, will unfold this week if WADA tick the ‘non-compliant’ box once more.<\/div>\n
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Among sanctions could be a ban on Russia hosting events and a ban on the use of the Russian flag at any international sports events for the next four years.<\/div>\n
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The European Swimming League announced this week that Kazan, Russia<\/a>, has been selected to host the 2021 European short-course Championships and the 2024 European Long-Course Championships. The 2021 event may have to be cancelled if WADA adopts the CRC recommendations.<\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, as calls for WADA to take a no-tolerance stance grow louder,<\/a> the story of manipulated data is not done. Swimming World understands that swimming is among sports that has cases pending, some dating back to 2015, related to doping-sample data that was manipulated.<\/div>\n
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Just as Glasgow action came to and end, one member of the WADA Counsel, Linda Helleland<\/strong>, tweeted: \u201cOn my way to WADA ExCo- meeting in Lausanne.It was a mistake to make RUSADA compliant BEFORE we got the data. Now we have them. Manipulate.<\/div>\n
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Time for WADA and IOC to install strongest sanctions possible, in the biggest SportScandal EVER #CleanAthletes #CleanSport.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Morozov would not be drawn about the possible outcome of tomorrow’s meeting, saying: “\u201cI am not going to answer that question.”<\/div>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Patrick B. Kraemer<\/p><\/div>\n

Kolesnikov followed his older team-mate through the mixed zone, where athletes and reporters meet, his hands full of medals and the best male award with his puce cap and goggles resting on top.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old wrestled with the answer when asked the same question, saying: “I wasn\u2019t so informed about this situation so I\u2019ll just hear from someone what will be. I am not so worried about it.<\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s not speak about these questions about the Olympics. I don\u2019t like to be speaking about this.<\/p>\n

“I am not thinking about this now: I just won the gold medals, won the European Championship, I just want to relax, have a good night and then we\u2019ll see.”<\/p>\n

Of whether the administration of sport and the doping process in Russia has improved, he continued:<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t speak for everyone in Russian sport so everyone is looking for himself. I don\u2019t know who is going to be disqualified\u2026.there are so many other situations with other athletes, not only with Russians. This year, last year. I don\u2019t like when someone is speaking about Russia like we are a dirty nation.<\/p>\n

“As I said, we will see.\u00a0I am not thinking about it all. I just keep swimming. Keep swimming. That\u2019s it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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