WADA Independent Maclaren report state-sponsored doping by Russia 2014 Winter Olympics jeopardizes RIO 2016
An independent report into claims of state-sponsored doping by Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics could put the country's place at the 2016 Summer Games in doubt. [full report below] Any adverse revelations could increase pressure on Russia to be banned from the Rio Olympics entirely. the report contains shock revelations A failsafe system, ordered and controlled by the state, operated from the Moscow laboratory, in order to protect Russian athletes by replacing positive samples with falsified negative results Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow laboratory [above], used a variant of the system ahead of the 2012 Olympics in London A new system, in operation at the laboratory in Sochi, allowed for clandestine sample-switching to hide positive samples. McLaren found evidence of tampering on sample bottles tested The Ministry of Sport ‘directed, controlled and oversaw’ both methods of manipulating athletes’ urine samples, and were assisted by the ...