Well, it was more like 8,000, McLaren now says.
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The report shows state-sponsored drug programs were impacting most sports but Putin says the calls for Russia’s expulsion from the games are politically motivated.
Moscow’s track and field team has already been effectively barred from Rio following another WADA report late previous year that there was widespread doping within that particular sport.
He went on to describe two separate systems designed not to register a positive doping test, one for “normal” operations out of the Russian national anti-doping laboratories in Moscow, and another able to hoodwink the global officials also present for doping tests during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The exact method used by the FSB agency, the former KGB, to tamper with bottles was unknown.
The doping continued in the 2015 swimming world championships in Kazan, chief investigator Richard McLaren said.
WADA issued a seven-point list of requests after it published the report.
The IOC also reveals that its executive board will convene for a teleconference today to discuss its immediate response to the findings, which may include “provisional measures and sanctions with regard to the Olympic Games Rio 2016”.
“I realise there are other aspects of his life that are not appropriate”, McLaren said.
Scott Blackmun said the USOC looks forward to working with the IOC, WADA and the rest of the Olympics family to address all the flaws.
The IOC has promised the “toughest sanctions available” but hasn’t yet detailed how it would respond to the McLaren report or whether it would act on WADA’s recommendation to ban Russian Federation.
Both had said before the report’s release that a blanket ban on Russian Federation from Rio, should be considered if the evidence was damning. The ban was upheld by the IAAF in a vote last month.
The athletes would then resume doping and any subsequent contaminated samples would be smuggled out of testing laboratories by agents working for Russia’s FSB secret service and replaced with the clean samples.
The report says Russia’s doping programme started in late 2011, and was in place for the London Olympics in 2012 and the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach has pledged to enforce the “toughest sanctions available”. The IAAF Doping Review Board found Ms. Klishina, who trains at a Florida sports academy, “meets the exceptional eligibility criteria” because she proved she was not involved in the scandal, and was subjected to drug tests outside of Russian Federation. Several organizations, including the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, have called for a complete ban of the Russian team.
“The [chief investigator] is aware of at least one foreign footballer playing in the Russian League who had that benefit of a SAVE order”, it said.
McLaren said the report was “credible and verifiable” and called Rodchenkov “was a credible and truthful person”.
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Since 2013, German and American television programs, and British and American newspapers have detailed widespread Russian doping in track and field and beyond. Calling this the “disappearing positive methodology”, it involved marking positive tests collected in Moscow either with the words “Quarantine” or “Save”.
