McLaren report: more than 1,000 Russian athletes involved in doping conspiracy

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Report for download: https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resourc...investigation-report-into-sochi-allegations-0

Supporting material (1,166 documents): https://www.ipevidencedisclosurepackage.net/

Summary of the presser (Guardian):
Here are the main points from part two of the McLaren report into doping in sport:

• More than 1,000 Russian athletes across 30 sports were involved in or benefitted from “an institutional conspiracy” of doping. The cover-up, which dates back to at least 2011, evolved into a sophisticated doping programme on “an unprecedented scale”

• Among a variety of techniques which went to staggering lengths, Russian officials added salt and Nescafé coffee granules to urine samples to make them match dirty samples and trick testers

• Vitaly Mutko, then-Russian minister for sport and now the deputy prime minister, is implicated via his department’s involvement, but there is no “direct evidence” that he knew of the doping programme. Vladimir Putin is not mentioned in the report

• The corruption at London 2012 will probably never be fully established but many Russian athletes who competed in the Games were part of the doping programme

• Prof Richard McLaren appeals for major organisations in sport and anti-doping to collaborate and “end the in-fighting”
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Live updates during the presser (Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2016/dec/09/mclaren-report-into-doping-in-sport-part-two-live

BBC: http://www.bbc.com/sport/38261608
The report's author, Professor Richard McLaren, who was appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, said: "There was a cover up that evolved into an institutional and disciplined medal-wining strategy."

The report said the system was refined over the course of the London 2012 Olympics, 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow and the Sochi Winter Olympics where a now "fail safe" system was in place to protect likely Russian medal winners.

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The new report also found:

  • At the Sochi Games, two Russian female ice hockey players had male urine samples
  • Samples of four Russian gold-medal winners in Sochi were tampered with
  • Emails were found asking for instructions from the Russian Ministry of Sport what to do with a positive sample - save or quarantine?
  • It found spreadsheets containing lists of athletes whose samples had been saved
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If every crook would watch that scene from The Wire where Stringer asks Shamrock if he is taking notes for a criminal conspiracy, we might have trouble exposing them. The number of idiots who save spreadsheets of their dirty deeds to only get caught because of them is amazing.
 
How the hell do doping controls work? I'm getting the impression that it seems like The Wild West where everyone does whatever the feck they want with their samples. :lol:
 
More than 30 cases of the 1,000 are from football. WC 2018 will be a doping fest.
 
VorZakone said:
Makes one wonder if Russia's 2008 Euro squad perhaps might have been on doping.
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I wouldn't be surprised. It's fair to assume, however, that Russia's Euro 2016 team wasn't. :wenger:
 
Unless I'm mistaken doping controls are administered by the nations own enforcement regulator ...

With that in mind, wide scale doping doesn't really surprise me much at all.
 
While I don't believe that the US provides the same systematic State doping scheme as Russia does, it's obvious that atletes from all countries try to bend the rules or seek loopholes.

It's utterly ridiculous how many atheletes pretend to have asthma or ADHS.

Exceptions to the Rules: How Some US Athletes Obtain Permits for Banned Medication
http://www.spiegel.de/international...rs-of-anti-doping-agency-usada-a-1124020.html
 
I haven't watched the Olympics or Athletics since Ben Johnson broke the WR.
"In testimony before the Dubin inquiry into drug use, Francis charged that Johnson was only one of many cheaters, and he just happened to get caught. Later, six of the eight finalists of the 100-meter race tested positive for banned drugs or were implicated in a drug scandal at some point in their careers: Carl Lewis, who was given the gold medal, Linford Christie, who was moved up to the silver medal and who went on to win gold at the next Games, Dennis Mitchell, who was moved up to fourth place and finished third to Christie in 1992, and Desai Williams, Johnson's countryman who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the Los Angeles Games in 1984."

I presume they all cheat one way or another, it's just some manage to cheat better than others.
 
Florence Griffith-Joyner comes to mind, too, and she paid for previous doping (though never officially confirmed) with her life.
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