WADA removed from the report on doping in the Russian Federation a letter of ex-head of the Moscow laboratory

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) edited the previously published version of the report by the Chairman of the Independent Commission of WADA Richard McLaren on the use of doping by Russian athletes, deleting the text of the letter of the ex-head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov from the document.

In the new version of the report ( PDF ), the number of pages was reduced to 89. The text of Rodchenkov’s letter was deleted from the document, in which he, in particular, spoke in state support for the doping program in the USSR and Russia, and also gave personal characteristics to the leaders of Russian athletics, coaches and athletes.

Journalists note that in this way WADA excluded the most conflicting moments from the report. Moreover, at the moment, there were no explanations of such a decision of the international organization.

Recall, on July 18, the McLaren commission voiced the results of the investigation of the fraud with doping at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. The accusations are built on the testimony of the ex-head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov, who fled over the ocean.

"The Ministry of Sports managed, controlled and conducted manipulations with the results of athletes analyzes and exchanged them with active participation and with the help of the FSB and the sports training center (CSP) of the Russian national teams in Moscow and Sochi," the document said.

As noted in the WADA report, the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory of the Covering Athletes who used prohibited drugs during the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, and the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation oversaw the analytical results and samples of athletes.

According to McLaren, the special services of the Russian Federation worked without witnesses and learned to quietly open the containers with samples, but there were traces of autopsy on all the examples proven in the commission. The "pure" samples were obtained during the period when the athletes did not receive doping, and were stored in Moscow.

The day before the publication of the report, the American publication The New York Times published scandalous material with the statements of the ex-head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov, who claimed that at least 15 Russian athletes who won the medals at the Winter Olympiad in Sochi were part of the “doping program” of Russia aimed at dominating the dominance of home Games.

According to Rodchenkov, the leading athletes of the Russian Federation gave a specially designed doping cocktail, and the urine tests were replaced through a hole in the wall of its laboratory

The day after the publication of the McLaren report, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to temporarily remove from the work of officials who were called direct performers in the report.