Posted on 07/19/2016 12:40:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Moscow laboratory operated a scheme for the false reporting of positive samples which Richard McClaren called the Disappearing Positive Methodology
The Ministry of Sport, the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) and the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the main heir to the Soviet-era KGB, were all involved
Russia's Deputy Minister of Sport Yuri Nagornykh was advised of every positive test from 2011 onwards and decided "who would benefit from a cover-up and who would not be protected"
Mr Nagornykh used the code word "save" when he wanted an athlete who had tested positive to be protected and "quarantine" for the normal anti-doping procedure to be followed
If the order was "save", laboratory officials had to report the sample as negative in WADA's anti-doping management system
A new system was designed for the Sochi laboratory where international observers were present, involving opening Russian athletes' sample bottles during the night and "swapping out dirty urine with clean urine"
The Russian Federal Security Service developed a method to surreptitiously open urine bottles to enable sampling swapping without detection
A mouse hole was drilled to enable the urine samples of protected athletes to be passed out of the laboratory to an "operations room" next door, usually around midnight
A storage freezer of "clean" urine was kept at Sochi "awaiting the swapping program at Sochi when required"
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
This will likely get Russia banned from both the Summer Olympics this year and the Winter Olympics coming in 2018.
I was cheering for the Russians at the Sochi Olympics. Though it was only because our olympic athletes seemed to go LGBT crazy.
I’ll admit that I have not been following this, and did not know that Russia’s track and field and weightlifting teams were already kicked out of the Rio Olympics.
Now this. When I read the details of these latest revelations (Russia’s FSB was large-scale swapping out urine samples, and so on), all I could say was
Holy ****!
The IOC almost has to give Russia’s entire team the boot. And acquire several Patriot or Iron Dome batteries as well...
Interesting hypothesis. IOC didn’t want to ban Russia out of fear of Putin exposing Sochi bribes.
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