Russian Doping Scandal

[Mavric]

Though it required a number of complex steps by lab and governmental officials, at its heart the scheme was actually pretty simple. The WADA-accredited laboratory—its accreditation was revoked in April 2016—would just report positive tests as negative.

 

In total violation of the WADA International Standard for Laboratories (“ISL”) all analytical positives appearing on the first sample screen at the Moscow laboratory were reported up to the Deputy Minister after the athlete’s name had been added to the information to be supplied. The order would come back from the Deputy Minister “SAVE” or “QUARANTINE”. If the order was a SAVE the laboratory personnel were required to report the sample negative in WADA’s Anti-Doping Management System (“ADAMS”). Then the laboratory personnel would falsify the screen result in the Laboratory Information Management System (“LIMS”) to show a negative laboratory result. The athlete benefited from the cover up determined and directed by the Deputy Minister of Sport and could continue to compete dirty.

This system was used from late 2011 through August 2015, and “affected athletes from all sport disciplines whose urine samples were being analysed by the Moscow Laboratory.” The investigation identified a total of at least 643 positive tests. At least 312 of these were, after the utilization of what McLaren termed the “Disappearing Positive Methodology,” reported negative.

 

But this system didn’t work at big international sporting events—like the 2013 track & field world championships held in Moscow, or the Sochi Games—hence the scheme to sneak vials of urine out of the supposedly secure sample collection room through a hole in the wall, unseal the supposedly tamper-proof caps, and swap in clean urine that had previously been frozen during PED wash-out periods. This system was workable because of “the efforts of the FSB,” who developed “a method for surreptitiously removing the caps of tamper evident sample bottles.”

 

 

Deadspin

[Kiyoat Husker]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/07/21/court-set-to-rule-on-appeal-by-russian-track-athletes/87375222/

 

The Russian Track Team is officially banned, and now the entire Russian Olympic team may suffer the same fate.

 

Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, who was commissioned by WADA, issued a scathing report Monday that accused Russia's Sports Ministry of orchestrating a doping system that affected 28 summer and winter Olympic sports. Officers of Russia's intelligence service, the FSB, were also involved in the cheating, which included swapping of doping samples at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, McLaren found.

 

[Michiganball]

Good, it's one thing when you have some individual doping, its another when it's actually state sponsored like in the old days with East Germany, hell soviets likely did it back then too. Throw them all out.