Harvard University has canceled the remainder of their men’s soccer season after an investigation discovered the team repeatedly rated the players on the women’s soccer team based on their physical appearance.

Harvard Cancels Men’s Soccer Team Season

The Harvard men’s soccer team’s practice of making lewd comments about their female counterparts allegedly dates back to at least 2012, according to a document uncovered by The Harvard Crimson last month.

“As a direct result of what Harvard Athletics has learned, we have decided to cancel the remainder of the 2016 men’s soccer season,” athletic director Robert L. Scalise wrote in an email to Harvard student-athletes. “The team will forfeit its remaining games and will decline any opportunity to achieve an Ivy League championship or to participate in the NCAA Tournament this year.”

The male students reportedly kept detailed notes on the incoming players for the women’s team, going so far as to include paragraphs about their appearances, numerical rating scores, photos and hypothetical sexual “positions” for each. The women mentioned in the 2012 report, which the male players called their ‘scouting report’ and began circulating online, responded with an essay in the Crimson. “In all, we do not pity ourselves, nor do we ache most because of the personal nature of this attack,” the essay reads. “More than anything, we are frustrated that this is a reality that all women have faced in the past and will continue to face throughout their lives.”

Harvard’s soccer team was No. 1 in the Ivy League standings, so the missed opportunity for them to play in the season’s final two games will surely sting both the players and several student fans on campus. A win against Columbia on Saturday would have clinched an automatic NCAA bid for Harvard.

University president Drew Faust said in a statement that she “was deeply distressed to learn that the appalling actions of the 2012 men’s soccer team were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few individuals.”

“The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard’s view that both the team’s behavior and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community,” Faust wrote.

Faust added the review is separate from any action by the University’s Title IX office, which investigates complains of sexual assault and harassment.

Rakesh Khurana, the dean of Harvard, released a statement Thursday evening saying he was “saddened and disappointed to learn that the extremely offensive ‘scouting report’ produced by the 2012 men’s soccer team continued through the current season.”

Scalise added that going forward, Harvard Athletics will partner with the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and other Harvard College resources in order to educate all student-athletes on “the seriousness of these behaviors and the general standard of respect and conduct that is expected,” he said.

CAMBRIDGE, MA – FEBRUARY 11: Historian Drew Gilpin Faust speaks at Harvard University in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center as she is named President of Harvard February 11, 2007 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard appointed Faust as the first woman to lead the oldest college in the U.S. as campuses nationwide struggle with a shortage of female faculty members. (Photo by Jodi Hilton/Getty Images)

The world’s top anti-doping officials called on Monday for Russia to be banned from this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio after an independent investigation led by a Canadian law professor has confirmed evidence of widespread, state-sponsored doping in Russian sports.

New Report Confirms State-Sponsored Doping By Russia At Olympics

Richard McLaren of Western University in London, Ontario released his findings Monday at a news conference in Toronto, stating labs in Moscow and Sochi protected Russian athletes. The findings confirm a Russian whistle-blower’s claims of government-ordered cheating at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

In short, Russia’s deputy minister of sports, who was also a member of Russia’s Olympic Committee, directed employees at Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory of which positive samples to send through and which to retain.

Russia’s national security service, the FSB– the modern-day version of the Soviet Union’s KGB– was also involved.

McLaren stated Russia’s cheating program, which he dubbed the “disappearing positive methodology,” lasted from 2011– shortly after the country’s disappointing performance at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics– to at least last year’s world swimming championships in Kazan, Russia. His timeframe includes the 2013 track and field world championships in Moscow.

McLaren added that out of 577 positive sample screenings, 312 positive results were retained– or labeled “Save” by the lab workers– but that only represented only a small portion of the data that could have been evaluated. More than 240 of the 312 “Saves” came from track and field and wrestling, although other sports involved included swimming, rowing, snowboarding, and table tennis.

According to McLaren’s 97-page report, which was commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the lab at the Sochi Olympics “operated a unique sample swapping methodology” that allowed Russian athletes to compete at the 2014 Winter Games, where the host country topped the award table with 13 gold medals and 33 medals overall.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that his country’s officials named in the report will be temporarily suspended, but demanded more detailed and “objective” information, claiming the report was based on the testimony of only one man (whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov).

In a statement released by the Kremlin, Putin said there was no place for doping in sport, as it represented a threat to the lives and health of the athletes and discredited fair play.

“Today we see a dangerous relapse of politics intruding into sports,” Mr. Putin said in a statement.

The International Olympic Committee, which has the sole authority to ban an entire delegation, called the actions outlined in the report a “shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport,” and pledged to pursue “the toughest possible sanctions available against any individual or organization implicated.”

Top Olympic executives were next due to meet in Rio, two days before the Games begin on Aug. 5, but the I.O.C. said Monday it had scheduled a meeting for Tuesday to discuss “provisional measures and sanctions.”

Hours after McLaren presented his report, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recommended that the IOC and the International Paralympic Committee ban all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.

WADA also said Russian government officials should be denied access to international competitions, including Rio 2016, and the organization also called on world governing bodies of sports implicated in the report to consider action against Russian national bodies.

Other organizations, including the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and the United States Anti-Doping agency, had already said they would call for a blanket ban on Russia for the Rio Games if McLaren’s report displayed evidence of a widespread, state-sponsored doping conspiracy. McLaren’s report said it did, and the investigator stated he was “unwaveringly confident in my report.”

Russia’s track and field athletes are already banned from representing their country at the Rio Olympics as part of the fallout from a doping scandal that began late last year when a WADA-commissioned investigation led by Canadian Dick Pound, and including McLaren, uncovered a widespread, state-sponsored doping program in Russia.

Among those not in favor of a full Russian ban was the head of gymnastics — a sport that was not among the 28 with non-reported positives.

“The right to participate at the games cannot be stolen from an athlete, who has duly qualified and has not be found guilty of doping,” said Bruno Grandi, president of gymnastics’ international federation. “Blanket bans have never been and will never be just.”

LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 06: Yuliya Zaripova of Russia celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Women’s 3000m Steeplechase final on Day 10 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 6, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)