Russia has made it a crime to facilitate doping, devoted more money to drug-testing the nation’s athletes and laid out a plan to establish mandatory antidoping education classes. President Vladimir V. Putin has called those changes — inspired by the threat of major sanctions for systematic doping — “enormous work based on the principles of clean sport.”
But no matter how enormous the pre-emptive measures Russia may take, the nation will not completely stave off sanctions, Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, said this week.
“We have the impression that some in Russia were thinking by addressing the issues for the future, the past would be forgotten,” Mr.