Rodchenkov’s allegations come amid growing suspicion about Russia’s anti-doping conduct. “The clean athletes of the world are watching to see if it will exercise real leadership and do the right thing for clean sport”. But the banned drug Clenbuterol was detected in Browne’s A urine sample in a test by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) after the fight.
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The IAAF statement added: ‘WADA’s decision to declare the new Kenyan NADO non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code for failing to introduce the relevant legislation by the stipulated deadline is a further reflection of the IAAF’s concerns about the level of commitment to anti-doping at the national level in Kenya.
After all the hours, sweat and work, he says it’s disheartening to know other athletes he competed with at the Sochi games may have been doping. “Based on the findings of a WADA inquiry, the International Olympic Committee will not hesitate to act with its usual policy of zero tolerance for doping and defending the clean athletes”. It allowed “Russian athletes who most likely were doping to go undetected in arguably the largest sporting fraud of all time“, the letter said.
The NYT report quoted Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia’s drug testing laboratory, who recounts dozens of cover-ups and the disposal of tainted samples.
“It is complete rubbish and we need to stop it”, said Legkov of the allegations made by Rodchenkov, who was director of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory at the time of the Sochi Games. Two Olympic gold medallists deny doping after they were named in a New York Times report as having been on a list of doped athletes allegedly compiled by the Russian Sports Ministry.
The Times story comes on the heels of a report that was broadcast on Sunday by the US news program 60 Minutes that further heightened concerns about Russia’s alleged doping crisis.
Up to 40 Kenyan athletes have failed doping tests since 2012, the biggest name among them being former three-time Boston City Marathon and Chicago Marathon champion, Rita Jeptoo, now serving a ban.
In November, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia needed to conduct its own investigation after allegations arose that athletes had been systematically taking performance-enhancing substances.
By the end of the Games, Dr. Rodchenkov estimated, as many as 100 dirty urine samples were expunged.
Sky News revealed earlier this week that anti-doping officials had been repeatedly prevented from testing athletes, and WADA has now confirmed the scale of the problem. That’s pretty bad. “He knew what was going on, it’s not just “she said, he said”. “This as an old attitude from the Cold War days”.
“I considering it an accusation not supported by anything”, Zubkov said, calling the story “simply lunacy”.
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The declaration of non-compliance by WADA raised the possibility that the IAAF might be emboldened to seek a sterner punishment for Kenya, as it did past year when it banned Russian Federation following a crisis at its anti-doping agency.
