In the U.S., he gave a series of interviews, in which he told of the replacement of Russian athletes’ doping samples during the Winter Games in Sochi. The report also contains similar accusations against the Russian Federal Security Bureau, but provides no evidence to prove that.
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The exact method used by the FSB agency, the former KGB, to tamper with bottles was unknown.
In June Breitbart News reported that the International Association of Athletics Federations banned Russia’s track and field team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as a result of extensive doping and corruption charges.
It revealed the Russian Sports Ministry controlled a cynical scheme to make a mockery of global anti-doping rules and effectively sabotage fair competition at several major events, including London 2012 and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
An independent investigation led by a Canadian law professor has confirmed widespread, state-sponsored doping across many Russian sports.
“Having said that, the McLaren report pulls no punches and is very clear”.
“This is not just about what we in North America call track and field and what others in the world call athletics”, McLaren said, confirming Rodchenkov’s allegations that cheating extended across the spectrum of sports – affecting both the Winter and Summer Olympics.
“Furthermore, any exceptional entry of a Russian athlete should be considered by the International Olympic Committee and IPC for participation under a neutral flag and in accordance with very strict criteria”. Last week, he said if the report was as damning as expected, he would push for such a ban.
“Russian athletes from the vast majority of summer and winter Olympic sports benefited from the Disappearing Positive Methodology”, the report said.
Under-fire Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko should leave his post, according to #newFIFAnow.
“Mutko is the Russian Sports Minister who has presided over the state-sanctioned doping measures detailed in the McLaren Report”.
In a “clandestine swapping process”, bottles containing positive samples were passed out of the Sochi laboratory through a “mouse hole”.
IOC President Thomas Bach called the revelations a “shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sports and on the Olympic Games” and said the IOC wouldn’t hesitate to apply the toughest sanctions available.
President Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation said that the officials named in the report would be “temporarily suspended”, and he asked for “fuller, more objective information that is based on facts”.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has set up an emergency International Olympic Committee conference call for Tuesday to talk over the matter in the wake of WADA calling for all Russian competitors and officials to be barred from the Rio Games that begin on August 5.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to consider, under their respective Charters, to decline entries, for Rio 2016, of all athletes submitted by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and the Russian Paralympic Committee. And for every anti-doping agency and athlete group calling for a full ban, there’s seemingly another sports organization or leader urging restraint.
The IOC is discussing a possible complete ban for the Russian team for the Olympic Games for all sports.
McLaren called this the “Disappearing Positive Methodology”.
Earlier on Monday, WADA said it uncovered a state-run system of cheating in Russian Federation, in which doping samples were tampered with and positive drugs tests turned into negative results by doping laboratories in Moscow and Sochi. That program involved dark-of-night switching of dirty samples with clean ones; it prevented Russian athletes from testing positive.
The doping continued in the 2015 Swimming World Championships in Kazan, chief investigator Richard McLaren said.
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Russia’s deputy minister of sports would direct lab workers on which positive samples to send through and which to hold back.
