Russian Federation denies state sports doping after fresh revelations

The IOC rejected the call, instead allowing global sports federations to decide which Russian athletes could compete. The new technology began to catch dozens of athletes, though not from the Olympics, because those samples had already been processed.

WADA said the move – which has the backing of the Russian Sports Ministry – broke an agreement that it would have a say on major appointments before they were announced.

According to his testimony, he had been doping Russian athletes with turinabol but now, as McLaren writes, “while appearing to be at the forefront of the development of doping detection science, he was secretly developing a cocktail of drugs with a very short detection window”. Two Russian officials – deputy minister of sport Yuri Nagornykh and Natalia Zhelanova, then Mutko’s advisor on anti-doping – were part of the system of coverups and have been fired.

About 30 sports including football were involved, officials added.

A “clean bank” of urine from athletes was also set up so doping failures could be replaced.

“How much more information do we need to receive before enough is enough?”, two-time Olympic hurdler Jeff Porter, chair of the USA Track & Field (USATF) Athletics Advisory Committee, told Reuters.

Mutko blasted the latest McLaren revelations.

In a statement the IPC said: ” The full findings of the report are unprecedented and astonishing.

“From now on we will not tolerate their allegations starting with “all of you” and ‘you have a state-backed program, ‘” RUSADA official and former pole-vaulting champion Yelena Isinbayeva told Russian state television.

The agency was suspended past year over cover-up allegations and requires WADA certification to start carrying out doping tests again.

Before McLaren’s media conference, his chief investigator Martin Dubbey talked journalists through the forensic methods used to uncover the conspiracy. “If there was one, it was by the director of the laboratory”.

“The Sports Ministry is ready to cooperate with worldwide organisations to improve the Russian and world anti-doping programme”.

“[But] they’ll say, “we do have a doping problem, we have it lower down in the grassroots with the coaches and the athletes and we want to change it”.

‘Sports fans and spectators have been deceived’.

Russian officials have tried to downplay the WADA’s findings in the past, but it seems like it will be hard for them to do that this time around.

Nearly every Olympic and Paralympic sport was involved and the conspiracy helped athletes to cheat at London 2012, the World Athletics Championships in Moscow in 2013, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan.

“Yet the Russian team corrupted the London Games on an unprecedented scale, the extent of which will probably never be fully established”, he said.

The probe was based on accusations made in the New York Times by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the under-fire Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory.

However, the report was unable to indicate how the FSB managed to open the bottles with samples.

There were even some bottles that had scratches on the cap, impossible levels of salt and a combination of different athletes’ urine.

The International Olympic Committee has described the extent of the state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation revealed by the second report by Richard McLaren as an attack on the integrity of the Olympics.

On July 18 this year, the first part of the McLaren report mentioned startling revelations of the state-sponsored doping all over Russian Federation during Sochi 2014.

Track’s governing body said more results are due next week from retesting of Russians who competed at the 2011 worlds in Daegu, South Korea.

– Following the 2013 IAAF Moscow World Championships, four athletics athletes’ samples were swapped.

The IOC this week extended its sanctions over the Russian doping.

Russian officials have denied there was an organized doping program, saying they are working with WADA to bolster its drug controls.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), who banned all but one Russian athlete from Rio 2016, said they “agreed” with McLaren that the doping manipulation had to stop.

“Despite the presented accusations I would like to point out that there has never been an organized system in Russian Federation for the falsification (of doping samples)”.

In a statement, the IOC said: “The IOC thanks Prof”.