More than 1000 Russian athletes benefited from state-sponsored doping - report

[rooster59]

More than 1000 Russian athletes benefited from state-sponsored doping - report

Alasdair Sandford

 

 

More than 1,000 Russian athletes, including Olympic medallists, are implicated in the McLaren report on Russian state-sponsored doping.

 

The report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says that athletes competing in summer, winter, and paralympic sports were either involved directly, or gained an advantage from a state-sponsored doping programme, dating back to 2011.

 

The author of the report, the Canadian sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren, said that the “medal-winning conspiracy” continued after the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.

 

This is the second part of a report giving more details of an elaborate state-sponsored doping scheme operated by Russia, first revealed in July.

 

London Olympics ‘corrupted’

 

More than 30 sports were involved, the report says, in concealing positive doping samples. It claims there was a systematic cover-up, which was refined at the 2012 Olympics in London, as well as the 2013 World Athletics Championships and 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

 

Professor McLaren said there was evidence that more than 500 positive results were reported as negative, including well-known and top-level athletes whose positive results were automatically falsified.

 

No Russian athlete tested positive at the London Olympics, where Russia won dozens of medals.

 

“The Russian team corrupted the London Games on an unprecedented scale,” McLaren said.

 

“The evidence does not depend on verbal testimony from anyone to draw a conclusion. Rather it tests the physical evidence and the conclusion is drawn from the results. The results of the forensic and laboratory analysis initiated by the IP (Independent Person report) establish that the conspiracy was perpetrated from at least 2011 to 2015,” the lawyer told a news conference in London.

 

 

The author said there was evidence that more than 500 positive tests were reported as negative including from top-level athletes.

 

A Moscow laboratory was involved in a urine swapping system used at the Sochi Winter Olympics, the report says. There was proof of bottle tampering and some athletes with impossible test results, it adds.

 

The first part of the report in July found Moscow had concealed hundred of positive doping tests in many sports and led to a partial ban of Russian athletes competing in the Rio Olympics this year.

 

However the International Olympic Committee rejected a blanket ban and let individual international sports federations decide which athletes should be allowed to compete.

 

‘Nothing new’

 

Russian officials have dismissed the latest report. Responding a few hours after its launch, the Russian Sports Ministry denied the existence of a state doping programme.

 

“We didn’t hear anything new. Unfounded accusations against us all. If you’re Russian, you are demonised,” said Duma MP and Russian Curling Federation President Dmitry Svishchev, as quoted in Russian reports.

 

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-12-10

[craigt3365]

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Russian officials have dismissed the latest report. Responding a few hours after its launch, the Russian Sports Ministry denied the existence of a state doping programme.

 

One thing the Russian government is good at, propaganda.  Probably the best.

[daveAustin]

No surprise, the Ruskies have been cheating since drugs were invented.

[Scott]

Off-topic post removed. 

[elgordo38]

Trump please call up your buddy Putin and have a little chat on this matter. Putin seems like an honest chap I am sure you both have a lot in common.

[elgordo38]

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

If you’re Russian, you are demonised,”

Don't know why?

[craigt3365]

1 hour ago, elgordo38 said:

Trump please call up your buddy Putin and have a little chat on this matter. Putin seems like an honest chap I am sure you both have a lot in common.

That's a scary statement! LOL

 

1 hour ago, elgordo38 said:

Don't know why?

It's just propaganda from the government.  The government is doing some silly things, but that's not the fault of the average person.

[peergin]

Is there ANYONE, I mean ANYONE who ever believes ANYTHING that the Russians say? If they say 10 things, 11 of them are lies.

[Ulic]

There are plenty of cheaters in sport from all countries but Russia takes it to a whole new

level. Anyone who thinks differently is fooling themselves. Countries like Kenya have

officials that will try to take a slice and benefit themselves but in Russia sport is used

for both for national pride and a distraction from the governments corruption

and failures. A five year ban of Russians in all sports competing outside its borders would

be a good start. Then Russia could apply for re-instatement to world governing bodies. They

are the ones who need to come up with a plan to prove the athletes are clean and the culture

of cheating has changed. As for Thomas Bach and the IOC, they are part of the problem.

It is time to clean house at the IOC, and FIFA. Those who think FIFA have done anything

but window dressing with the changes it has made is mistaken.

[mania]

22 hours ago, daveAustin said:

No surprise, the Ruskies have been cheating since drugs were invented.

 

More correctly Athletes have

USA Lance Armstrong a good example of one who almost pulled it off for 7 TDF wins

China female swimmers? Many

South American climbers

The list is endless none are free from it

 

Folks who never competed at the top levels may find it hard to believe but...

When differences are measured in hundredths of a second or less

many athletes will succumb to a magic bullet if offered & they think they can get away with it.

 

Sadly  of course it is a big mistake as it discounts everything they ever done & worked so hard for.

 

But also to the jeering masses who think these folks take a magic potion sit ion the couch & win

magically turned from ordinary humans into super human they are also badly mistaken

Most of the performance enhancement drugs do little more than allow an athlete a tiny fraction better

recovery time....They still train like maniacs

 

Or perhaps builds a fraction more muscle mass or increases VO2max etc etc

 

But yes not a Russian only game

All countries have been looking for all time.

Some just mask it better

 

 

 

Edited December 11, 2016 by mania

[craigt3365]

8 minutes ago, mania said:

 

More correctly Athletes have

USA Lance Armstrong a good example of one who almost pulled it off for 7 TDF wins

China female swimmers? Many

South American climbers

The list is endless none are free from it

 

Folks who never competed at the top levels may find it hard to believe but...

When differences are measured in hundredths of a second or less

many athletes will succumb to a magic bullet if offered & they think they can get away with it.

 

Sadly  of course it is a big mistake as it discounts everything they ever done & worked so hard for.

 

But also to the jeering masses who think these folks take a magic potion sit ion the couch & win

magically turned from ordinary humans into super human they are also badly mistaken

Most of the performance enhancement drugs do little more than allow an athlete a tiny fraction better

recovery time....They still train like maniacs

 

Or perhaps builds a fraction more muscle mass or increases VO2max etc etc

 

But yes not a Russian only game

All countries have been looking for all time.

Some just mask it better

It's done by athletes in every country.  But as mentioned above, Russia took it to another level.  Being sponsored by the state and supported by the FSB isn't right.  It's sad those in power use this as a tool to improve their countries image.  Sadly, they could have done the same without this level of corruption.  Russia has great athletes.  But terrible leaders.

 

China did the same thing when they sponsored the olympics.  Cheating on birth dates, etc.  State sponsored.