Russia’s track and field athletes could miss the 2016 Olympics in Rio after a World Anti-Doping Agency report accused officials, including the country’s sports minister, of systematic doping cover-ups, and said its teams should be suspended.
Former WADA chief Dick Pound led the 11-month investigation, which has produced a 325-page report. It alleges doping violations over a period of years, directly encouraged by top officials, with complicity from testing labs, and assistance from Russia’s security services.
WADA claims that tests from athletes were routinely pre-screened at an unaccredited laboratory outside of Moscow, before being sent on to the WADA-approved lab. The head of the accredited testing center, Grigory Rodchenko, would then allegedly extort money from athletes for certain samples, while others would be cleared, with Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko making direct orders to "manipulate particular samples,” the WADA commission claimed. Rodchenko is also accused of destroying 1,417 samples requested by the investigation.
Mutko has denied all allegations, while the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) has accused WADA of circumventing established protocols for dealing with doping.
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INC News, 09/11/2016 - via RT
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