Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) director general Yuri Ganus has urged President Vladimir Putin to intervene in order to salvage the situation.

"I don't try to be loyal but I have to be objective and independent in this position. And I know and I saw that the president at his level was not involved, he wasn't involved in this crisis. We are waiting for support from the President because you have seen during this conference how the Polish President (Andrzej Duda) supports his anti-doping movement and his sports movement and we need the same kind (of support),"Ganus mentioned.

Meanwhile, the Russian anti-doping chief also admitted that the on-going crisis of rampant doping in Russian sport is "unacceptable" and mentioned that "Russia sports industry has been destroyed" over the possibilities of Russia being banned from all major sports events.

"I think one of the main tasks now is that we have to change the bad excuse approach. We have to change the people who realized this approach because now Russian sport is in the fifth year of the doping crisis. It's impossible because we will lose our current and future generation of athletes," Ganus said.

Russia has already come under fire for alleged manipulation of the data from its Moscow laboratory that is being used to prosecute dozens of doping cases. A decision on the fate of the country's anti-doping agency RUSADA is expected in December.