December 22, 2016 – IOC president Thomas Bach has apparently ruffled the feathers of 24 Anti-Doping Organizations who sought to meet with him for an urgent face-to-face meeting to discuss the problems in the global anti-doping system reports The Guardian. Bach is reported to have sidestepped their request and instead IOC director-general, Christophe De Kepper, responded after a two-week delay to suggest a meeting in January. The urgent meeting was in reaction to the second part of the McLaren report that identified that more than 1,000 Russians athletes across more than 30 sports were involved in, or benefited from, state-sponsored doping between 2011 and 2015. Bach’s sincerity to take action is being called into question – read more here.