WADA has said it believes the hackers, named as APT28 and Fancy Bears, gained access to its anti-doping administration and management system (ADAMS) via an IOC-created account for the Rio Games.
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He was granted permission for the morphine drip in 2014 after he collapsed during a training session, The Guardian reports.
But just as Wiggins still faces questions over three injections of a powerful corticosteroid that he had not disclosed before, the first of Farah’s two TUEs became the immediate focus of the most recent leak as it was for the same drug prescribed to Wiggins – triamcinolone – and it seemed he had previously admitted to only one TUE.
Fancy Bears hacked the World Anti-Doping Agency’s confidential medical files, and have been posting various athletes’ therapeutic use exemption (TUE) certificates online in the past week, including Skinner’s on Monday.
In a statement, Farah says he has “no problem” with the release of his records.
“Mo’s medical care is overseen at all times by British Athletics and over the course of his long career he has only ever had two TUEs”.
Spain’s Nadal is universally recognized as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, having won every major tennis grand slam – including nine French open titles – as well as the men’s singles gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The documents relating to Nadal showed exemptions in 2009 and 2012. Wada has called them “criminal” and “an attempt to undermine Wada”. As for Rose, the records show that he had authorization for daily dosages of the anti-inflammatory drug prednisolone between May and June 20, 2016.
“Given this intelligence and advice, WADA has no doubt that these ongoing attacks are being carried out in retaliation against the Agency, and the global anti-doping system, because of our independent Pound and McLaren investigations that exposed state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation”.
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Last week, Rio 2016 gold medallists Sir Bradley Wiggins, Laura Trott and Nicola Adams, and three-time Tour de France victor Chris Froome, were among those named as having TUEs.
