The report says Scott and fellow WADA athletes representative Claudia Bokel of Germany sat in on its interview with Rodchenkov.
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He said the 312 results that were held back represented only a “small slice” of the data that could have been examined.
French police charge Lamine Diack with corruption on suspicion the 83-year-old Senegalese accepted bribes to cover up doping cases.
WADA makes sure to note that it does not have authority to ban Russian athletes itself.
Volleyball officials are among those who don’t want to see all Russians kicked out of the Olympics.
Russian track and field athletes have already been banned from competing in Brazil, but the DOSB joined the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in advocating a total ban on all Russian competitors from Rio. He noted that in volleyball, much of the testing is done outside of Russian Federation, where labs have been implicated in the scandal.
Paul Melia, CEO of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, said barring all Russian athletes from competing in the Olympics would be an unprecedented move. Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho says it will take “much of the brightness of the competition, but it is necessary to consider curbing doping”.
It said the catalyst for the development of a system to hide widespread doping had been Russia’s performance at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, where a country that cherishes its status as a sporting superpower finished 11th, with only three gold medals.
But Mr McLaren said the bottle tampering in Sochi was a one-shot deal.
Star hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser, a member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission, felt “a lot of vindication” from the report’s release.
And WADA has asked for more funding so McLaren can complete more detailed work after this report, which was delivered in 57 days so it came out before the Summer Games.
WADA itself explicitly urged the International Olympic Committee to consider banning Russian Federation from the Rio Olympics altogether.
However, in the light of Monday’s report, with a wide group of sports bodies calling for a blanket ban, a broad sanction could now be on the cards.
The WADA response is a further signal Russian Federation could be facing Olympic expulsion when the 15-member IOC executive board discusses the crisis on Tuesday.
WADA’s president, Craig Reedie, is also an IOC vice president who will take part in the scheduled conference call requested by IOC President Thomas Bach.
In Sochi itself, where worldwide observers were scrutinizing the drug tests, positive results could not simply be brushed away, so a system of sample-swapping was put in place with the help of the FSB intelligence service, the report said.
The report confirmed that state-sponsored doping in Russian sports went far beyond the Sochi Olympics. The full statement is here.
– The Ministry of Sport made the determination as to which athletes would be protected.
Mutko is also a member of world soccer body FIFA’s ruling council and chairs the organizing committee of the 2018 World Cup being hosted by Russian Federation.
The report alleged an additional 11 positive tests of Russian soccer players were made to disappear in the state-sponsored doping program from late 2011 to 2015.
It was “inconceivable that Minister Mutko was not aware of the doping cover-up scheme”, according to evidence from the former head of Moscow’s WADA-accredited testing laboratory.
He called the McLaren report a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games.
Shortly after the McLaren’s comments, WADA chief spokesman Ben Nichols tweeted that his organization would recommend that Russians be banned from all global competition, including Rio, until “culture change” is achieved.
Mr McLaren said he was “unwaveringly confident” in his report, and insisted there was no leak, as several sports organisations suggested over the weekend, when draft letters calling for Russia’s ban were leaked to the media. Wrestling, meanwhile, accounted for 28 of the 312 unreported positives.
“The investigation has established the findings set out in the report beyond a reasonable doubt”, McLaren told a press conference in Toronto, Canada Monday.
The investigation came off the back of claims made by former Russian anti-doping laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov a year ago to the New York Times that he was ordered to cover up the drug use of at least 15 Sochi 2014 medal winners.
A report – commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency – released by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren accused the Russian Sports Ministry of being involved in widespread doping during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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The commission, headed by Dr Richard McLaren, has primarily been looking into claims made by the former director of the WADA-accredited laboratory in Moscow, Grigory Rodchenkov, that he doped dozens of athletes, including at least 15 medallists, in the build-up to the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.
