None of these medal winners were caught doping at the time.
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On Wednesday, CBS News reported the FBI was investigating the allegations.
The commission accused certain athletes and sports officials of doping abuse and involvement in other activities related to violations of global regulations on performance enhancing substances. In an interview to an American filmmaker Bryan Fogel, he said that he developed a three-drug cocktail of banned substances which he then mixed it with liquor – “whiskey for the men, Martini for the women” – and provided to dozens of Russian athletes, The New York Times reported.
Until Sochi, most of the doping was out-of-competition.
Kenyans – athletes, track officials, and top political figures – feared the worst. The IOC “would not hesitate” to retest drug samples from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi if there is evidence that doping controls were manipulated, according to the Olympic body’s medical director.
Doctors were fully equipped, knowledgeable, experienced and perfectly prepared like never before. “It was working like a Swiss watch”.
Russian athletes won 33 medals in the Sochi Games, 13 of which were gold.
The New York Times said Rodchenkov was now in California with documentary filmmaker Bryan Fogel. He detailed the scope and specifics of Russia’s program.
The Turkish committee says it is “aware of the allegations made against Tokyo 2020 bid committee” but notes they are being investigated by the IOC.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has condemned the latest allegations as “absurd”, calling them “a continuation of the information attack on Russian sport”.
“The results show that the hard period in the history of Russian Federation sport is over”, Putin said after the games. Wesley Korir, a member of the Kenyan Olympic marathon team and himself a lawmaker, blamed the government’s sports ministry officials for messing up the legislation. Rodchenkov admitted his lab covered up the drug tests results and that Russian intelligence was involved in the testing.
Up to 100 tainted urine samples were replaced with clean ones which had been collected months before, with samples passed through a hole in a lab wall at night.
Korir, a former Boston marathon victor who has led a campaign to criminalise doping and has been selected for Kenya’s Olympics team, said tinkering with the bill was “completely unacceptable” and called on the sports ministry to reveal where and how mistakes were made. The officer also supplied clean urine that was supplied by the athletes months prior to the Olympics.
Bobsledder Alexander Zubkov and cross-country skier Alexander Legkov told Russian state TV that they were clean during the Olympics.
As Dan Wetzel wrote for Yahoo, this report is proof that the Sochi Olympics were “a fake”. “This crisis represents an opportunity for the International Olympic Committee and the IAAF to demonstrate to clean athletes their resolve to rid sport of doping cheats”.
The fall-out from this report could be vast.
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The Kremlin lashed out as a growing doping scandal threatened Russia’s participation in the Olympic Games this summer in Rio de Janeiro. Putin has called the report “a turncoat’s libel”.
