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More than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from state-sponsored doping
Source: The Guardian
More than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from state-sponsored doping
• Figure revealed in Professor Richard McLaren’s second report into doping
• Over 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports implicated, including football
Sean Ingle
Friday 9 December 2016 11.30 GMT
More than 1,000 Russian athletes across over 30 sports – including football – were involved in or benefited from state-sponsored doping between 2011 and 2015, it has been revealed.
A second report by the respected Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, published in London on Friday morning, also found evidence of male DNA in two female hockey players’ urine samples – which he said provided “incontrovertible confirmation that the original samples had been tampered with and swapped”.
McLaren described Russia as having deliberately conducted “an institutional conspiracy across summer and winter sports” which produced “a cover-up that operated on an unprecedented scale”.
Speaking in regards to London 2012, McLaren said: “The Russian Olympic team corrupted the London Games on an unprecedented scale.”
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• Figure revealed in Professor Richard McLaren’s second report into doping
• Over 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports implicated, including football
Sean Ingle
Friday 9 December 2016 11.30 GMT
More than 1,000 Russian athletes across over 30 sports – including football – were involved in or benefited from state-sponsored doping between 2011 and 2015, it has been revealed.
A second report by the respected Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, published in London on Friday morning, also found evidence of male DNA in two female hockey players’ urine samples – which he said provided “incontrovertible confirmation that the original samples had been tampered with and swapped”.
McLaren described Russia as having deliberately conducted “an institutional conspiracy across summer and winter sports” which produced “a cover-up that operated on an unprecedented scale”.
Speaking in regards to London 2012, McLaren said: “The Russian Olympic team corrupted the London Games on an unprecedented scale.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/dec/09/more-than-1000-russian-athletes-benefitted-from-state-sponsored-doping