Russian government participated in state-sponsored doping, per WADA investigation

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: ESPN

An investigator looking into Russian doping found that the country's state-directed cheating program resulted in at least 312 falsified results and lasted from 2011 through at least last year's world swimming championships.
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McLaren said allegations made by Moscow's former anti-doping lab director about sample switching at the Sochi Olympics went much as described in a New York Times story in May. That program involved dark-of-night switching of dirty samples with clean ones and prevented Russian athletes from testing positive.

But McLaren, whose report went public Monday, said Russia's cheating also included the 2013 track world championships in Moscow and the 2015 swimming world championships in Kazan.
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Russia's deputy minister of sports would direct lab workers which positive samples to send through and which to hold back.



Read more: http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/17098833/russian-government-participated-state-sponsored-doping-2014-winter-olympics-per-wada-report

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Live updates: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2016/jul/18/wada-mclaren-report-russia-sochi-2014-doping-live

[DetlefK]

1. The denials from Russia are... weird.

https://www.rt.com/sport/351861-wada-report-sochi-olympics/

He was also scathing in his attack on Rodchenkov, saying that the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory had made up all of these allegations.

“Rodchenkov thought all of this up, organized it, and fed all of our sportsmen these cocktails. This person should not be trusted! He says one thing in Russia and another thing abroad. There are a lot of allegations but they have not one of these have been backed up by facts,” he added.


The former head of the russian anti-doping laboratory was responsible for giving russian athletes doping-cocktails. And we are not supposed to believe him even though these are his crimes he is talking about.

[lanlady]

6. For once, the Russian propaganda machine is speechless

I think the furor over doping has taken the Kremlin by surprise; it's probably spent millions of dollars over the year bribing IOC members, and now it's come to this. Simply put, they did not expect Rodchenkov to "defect" to the West and to start making allegations that were taken seriously. The situation has left them scrambling for a response, at least in the English-language media out of Russia. Russian-language media, on the other hand, has been "catapulting the propaganda" to Russia's citizens ever since the track & field team was banned from Rio. Of course it's all the fault of the West which is jealous of Russia's success and wants Russia to fail blah blah blah.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. IOC consider total Olympic ban for Russia after Wada report

In a statement issued shortly after the report was published, the IOC claimed it “will now carefully study the complex and detailed allegations, in particular with regard to the Russian Ministry of Sport”.

IOC President Thomas Bach added: “The findings of the report show a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games. Therefore, the IOC will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organisation implicated.

“In the immediate short term, the IOC Executive Board (EB) will convene in a telephone conference tomorrow to take its first decisions, which may include provisional measures and sanctions with regard to the Olympic Games Rio 2016.”

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/ioc-consider-total-olympic-ban-for-russia-after-wada-report-1.2726057

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Russian officials ran doping programs in multiple Olympic sports, WADA investigation finds

Russian officials ran doping programs in multiple Olympic sports, WADA investigation finds

By Will Hobson
@TheWillHobson

July 18 at 9:13 AM

An investigation by the global agency that polices drug cheating in sports has found “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the Russian government ran a widespread doping regime for years in multiple Olympic sports, calling into question whether any Russian athletes should be permitted to compete at Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month.

Russia’s ministry of sport covered up positive doping results by Olympic athletes for years in both Summer and Winter Olympic sports, the investigation found, and Russian intelligence agents participated in an elaborate covert scheme at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi to replace tainted urine samples of cheating Russian athletes with clean ones.

“It was a fail-safe method of permitting cheating Russian athletes to compete while using performance-enhancing substances,” said Richard McLaren, a Canadian lawyer and sports ethics expert who led the investigation, in a Monday morning news conference in Toronto.

{Graphic: What you need to know about performance enhancing drugs in the Summer Olympics}

This is the second major investigation by WADA of Russian sports doping within the past two years. A previous WADA investigation of the nation’s track and field program, released in November 2015, found endemic doping and likely government involvement. In response to that report, the International Association of Athletics Federations — the global agency that governs international track and field — imposed a ban on Russian track and field athletes competing in international events that will effectively bar the global superpower’s track team from the Rio Games.

{WADA heard of Russian doping in 2010, didn’t investigate until media reports}

[uawchild]

4. One of these is a DUPE on LBN

This thread OR this one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141522531

I think.

Order in LBN seems to show this thread has precedence by seconds perhaps?

[Bradical79]

5. Hopefully they get banned

Otherwise, there's not much point to the testing.