The New York Times reported on Thursday quoting statements by Rodchenkov, who claimed that at least 15 Russian medal-winners at Sochi Winter Olympics were part of a state-run doping program created to enhance their performance.
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Meanwhile, samples of the tests had been sealed and sent to Lausanne, Switzerland, where International Olympic Committee is based, the official added.
“He’s a professional, worked for a hundred years in this system”.
The article also brought a strong response from the Kremlin.
But although critical of Kenya’s “level of commitment to anti-doping” on Friday, the IAAF won’t punish the athletes like Yego and David Rudisha, the 800-meter world record holder, reigning Olympic champion, and star of the 2012 London Games.
The spreadsheet was not published and The Associated Press could not verify it.
“We understand fully that, in the current climate, with new doping allegations surfacing, we have work to do to further secure athletes’ confidence in clean sport”, Reedie said on Thursday.
Legkov defended his “honest medals” and said Rodchenkov, who resigned as lab director past year following separate allegations that he covered up doping in track and field, was not a credible source. “I have always been absolutely clean”, Zubkov said.
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.
The Russian Olympic team finished the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi in the first place with the overall result of 33 won medals (13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze medals) surpassing its previous Winter Olympics record of 11 gold medals, set at the 1994 Winter Games in Norway’s Lillehammer.
“It just seems like, you know, some kind of a turncoat’s libel”, Dmitry Peskov said, without mentioning Rodchenkov by name. “I wouldn’t put trust in such unfounded claims”.
However Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko was scornful of the allegations, calling them “a continuation of the information attack on Russian sport”.
The country’s deputy sports minister, Yuri Nagornykh, said there is no way that Russian Federation could have manipulated doping samples at the Sochi Games because of the presence of foreign observers.
Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory, described a tightly-orga …
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will investigate the accusations made by Rodchenkov (who has volunteered to identify which samples he tampered with).
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The allegations, along with a recommendation by the WADA foundation board to declare distance-running powerhouse Kenya non-compliant, and a French probe into payments around the election of the 2020 Games host city are casting a dark shadow over the Olympics 12 weeks ahead of opening ceremony in Rio.
