Fugitives from Rusad

CBS "60 minutes": Four Russian gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are mined using steroids

Frame from the plot of the CBS television channel

Applications for doping in Russian sports, which were made in the program "60 minutes" of the American CBS television channel on May 8, became interested in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Judging by this news, transmitted by CBS News, gold medals won by Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, under the great suspicion of federals.

The revealing records of conversations with the Russian athletes and the ex-head of the Moscow laboratory of Rusad Grigory Rodchenkov became a nail of the next issue of the famous CBS program. The doping revelations of colleagues secretly recorded a former employee of the Russian Anti -Doping Agency (RUSADA) Vitaly Stepanov and his wife athletics Julia Stepanov (Rusanova), who became the heroes of the program.

“We listened to all these conversations,” the plot says. “The most stunning news that Rodchenkov said was that at least four Russians won gold Sochi medals on steroids, and his laboratory hid this information.”

However, the audience of CBS saw a video of Stepanov’s conversation with Rodchenkov on Skype without sound, so that direct quotes of the former anti -doping official on the air did not sound, as well as the names of the very four athletes.

From an interview with CBS

Vitaly Stepanov: At some point, the vice-president of the federation (sports, the name is not specified) offered me a bribe. The man just came up and said: “This athlete will not take tests. How much money do you want? ”

* Journalist: * What (Rodchenkov) told you about the FSB and its connection with the Sochi (anti -doping) laboratory?

Vitaly Stepanov: That during the Sochi Games some FSB agents worked as employees of doping control. That the FSB tried to control every step of anti -doping actions in Sochi.

Caste "Unsheated"

The first time the Stepanov’s wife’s reverse side of the Olympic medals presented the world in December 2014 in the film of the German television channel Ard. Last November, as you know, the World Anti-Doping Agency Commission (WADA) accused Russia of violations of anti-doping rules and recommended the International Association of athletics federations (IAAF) to remove Russian athletes from participation in its competitions, as well as in the 2016 Olympics. In addition, WADA suspended the work of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory, after which its leader Grigory Rodchenkov resigned. According to CBS, it is hidden in the USA, because he fears for his safety at home.

The Stepanovs asked for political asylum in Canada, but now they are also in the States. The CBS operator camera shows the life of a young couple. A family with a small child lives in a modest two -room apartment, the address of which is not disclosed for security reasons. A minimum of furniture, toys on a soft carpet, tightly closed blinds, so that the landscape outside the window inadvertently does not give out the whereabouts of the fugitives.

From an interview with CBS

Journalist: Let me announce the names of some drugs that, as I read, you took: testosterone ...

Julia Stepanova (nods his head): Yeah.

Journalist: *... Trenbone ... *

Julia Stepanova: Yes.

Journalist : ... Paradaralan.

Julia Stepanova: Yes.

Journalist: These are potent drugs .

Julia Stepanova: Yes, all these are steroids.

Journalist : Have you thought about the fact that this is wrong?

Julia Stepanova: It is difficult to think that you are doing something wrong if everyone around is saying that it is necessary. I was untouchable.

A sunsid voice explains: this means that Julia could take prohibited drugs without fear of being caught in doping.

The athlete tells how she secretly recorded the recognition of the 2012 Olympic champion, the world and 2010 world and 2011 champion, Maria Savinova, that she took drugs to improve performance: “In Russia, everyone performs on drugs.”

Julia herself was disqualified for two years by the decision of the anti -doping commission of the All -Russian Athletics Federation in February 2013 - on the basis of “deviations of blood testimony in the biological passport of the athlete”; Her records, starting on March 3, 2011, are recognized as invalid. Stepanova is sure that she was excluded from the caste of “untouchable” only because, having injured, she became hopeless for Russian sports.

Truth -reader

Vitaly and Julia met at the seminar on anti -doping control. On the first date, the girl admitted that she takes prohibited drugs.

From an interview with CBS

Vitaly Stepanov: She said: "I use doping, like all members of our team."

Journalist: What did you think about then?

Vitaly Stepanov: I hoped that I could change something. Julia then said that the task of Rusad is not this (not in the fight against doping). Rusada helps Russian athletes win medals. Rusada conducts tests, but their results are fake.

In their homeland, many consider Stepanov traitors, President of WADA Craig Ridi, on the contrary, called them heroes. Still working in Rusada, Stepanov sent more than 200 letters with certificates of corruption in the Russian doping control system to the World Anti-Doping Agency.

WADA, although immediately, reacted. As CBS, CBS, said CBS, Kreig Ridi, thanks to the efforts of a loner from Rusad, the World Organization changed its charter and in January 2015 created an independent commission of investigations. Before that, as follows from his words, the agency could only send letters of Vitaly Stepanov back to Russia. As a result, intransigence and uncompromisingness cost the truth -seeker work in Russia, and Julia filed for divorce.

“I wanted the sport to remain fair, and the winner is a real hero, not a fraudster,” Stepanov explained his stubbornness to American journalists.

After the broadcast, WADA reported that he immediately proceeds to the investigation of the “purity” of the Sochi Olympic gold, requesting a confessor of Rodchenkov from CBS. “The statements sounded in the program give a real reason for concern, as they contain new information about attempts to undermine the process of fighting doping at the Games in Sochi,” the statement of Craig Ridie, published on the agency’s official website, said. - Mr. Rodchenkov, of course, was surrounded by an independent WADA commission in connection with doping in Russian athletics last year. Unfortunately, he has not yet treated such information related to games in Sochi; It is amazing to hear these statements many months after the commission completed its work. ”

"Victory at any cost"

The most lively participation in the fate of Russian truth -seekers is taken by the head of the American Anti -Doping Agency (USADA) Travis Taigart. This is the same irreconcilable Tagart, because of which in 2012, the famous American highwayman Lance Armstrong, the only athlete, who finished the first in the overall standings of the Tour de France cycling, was lifelously disqualified for the use of doping.

“We are talking about the system under the control of the sports leadership (Russia), ready for everything in order to achieve the goal,” Tagart said on the air of CBS. This is the concealment of test results, and the substitution of samples, and bribes. According to him, if information about doping in Sochi is true, this is a crushing undermining of all Olympic values.

Travis Taigart: It is quite clear that this is the last nail in the lid of the coffin of Russian athletics.

Journalist: Are you against the admission of Russian athletes for games in Rio? (The 2016 Olympic Games will be held in August in Brazilian Rio de Janeiro- * nt * ).

Travis Taigart: We are against. They cannot act by violating the rights of "pure" athletes.

"The next wordblast"

The official representatives of Russia called the commentary of the USADA head "unethical", and the revealing plot of CBS is unproven.

“This is the next word -based, based on the stories of people who have compromised themselves and want to denigrate their comrades. Now they (the Stepanov’s spouses) will say everything that they will “ask for” their new overseas neighbors, ”the head of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Dmitry Svishchev told the R -Sport agency.

In the opinion of the Russian authorities, there was also the first report of the WADA independent commission on the use of doping in the athletics national team of Russia, published last year. “The fact is that if some accusations sound, then they must be supported by some evidence. Until some evidence was heard, it is difficult to perceive some accusations. They are unfounded, ”said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov then.

Nevertheless, it is expected that at a meeting on June 17 in Vienna, the International Association of athletics federations will decide whether or not to allow Russian athletes to participate in the 2016 Olympics.

The largest Russian doping scandals of the last 10 years according to Eurosport.ru

April 2005. The doping industry Yegor Titov showed traces of the prohibited psychostimulator Brander, the Spartak player was removed for a year. However, the journalistic investigation of Sport Express found that doping was massive in Spartak and was carried out without fail. Samples and previously gave a positive result, but at the country's level, and therefore it was relatively easy to hide them. Another subtlety was that the bromantan used was withdrawn from production back in 1996 (initially it was intended for paratroopers), and part of the drug could even be expired. In addition to the disqualification of Titov and the removal from the work of the chief physician of the team, Artem Katulin (later amnestered), the club did not suffer punishment in the form of deprivation of glasses, titles or fines.

February-2006. Olga Puva came to the Olympics in Turin in good shape and took silver of an individual race, but the International Biathlon Union disqualified Pylev and took the medal. It turned out that the drug in a Russian woman was discovered back in January, but then Olga was forgiven, recognizing the need to use the medicine with Carfeedon in the composition. In the eyes of conspiracy theological fans, the case quickly turned into an attempt to leave Russia without a medal - both Olga and her personal doctor Nina Vinogradova received a two -year disqualification.

January-2009. Biathlonists Albina Akhatova, Ekaterina Yuryeva and Dmitry Yaroshenko claimed the medals of the World Cup. However, samples revealed the presence of erythropoetin - this is a traditional stimulator of endurance for skiers and cyclists. All three were disqualified and were not allowed either to the Olympics in Vancouver, nor to the Sochi Games.

December-2012 . Before the 2013 World Tour season, the participants of the participants did not find the Russian team of high-tanks Team Katusha, which took second place in the 2012 TEAM KATUSHA rating. The reason for the disqualification is a violation of ethics rules, namely, positive tests for Erythropoetin Denis Galimzyanov in March 2012. Three years earlier, at EPO, Kristian Pfannberger and Antonio Coal, bikes of TEAM KATUSHA. The team challenged the disqualification in the International Court in Lausanne.

July-2013. In April 2013, Valery Kaykova, a cycling of the bike lover, showed the presence of a prohibited substance GW1516. He received a two -year disqualification, a lawsuit and was dismissed from the team. But two months later, three more - Andrei Solomenikov, Roman Maikin and Artem Ovechkin - came across the use of phenoterol. “Rusvelo” accused the doctor Sergei Lyakhov, who gave the riders a medicine for asthma with phenoterol in the competitive period. It is at this time that the substance is forbidden - in the off -season, the traces are not fined for its traces.

Exactly a year later, the doping industry of the two-time bronze medalist of London Olga Zabelinskaya showed the presence of octopomine. And in June 2015, the collection was replenished by the star newcomer of the team Peter Ignatenko, whose tests showed the presence of a growth hormone.

January-2014. The doping scandal with Russian athletes thundered in Saransk-the alma mater of the best walkers of the country, world and Olympic champions. On theies of the sample of Elena Lashmanova, the sample gave a positive result for the GW1516 metabolites - a substance used against obesity as a metabolism stimulator. Under the pressure of WADA, Rusada took up the entire Viktor Chegin school and suddenly information opened on 15 (according to other sources - 20), who had doping problems since 2005.

The disqualification was received by Sergey Kirdyapkin, Olga Kaniskin, Sergey Bakulin, Valery Borchin and Vladimir Kanaykin. However, punishment touched the athletes retroactively, without affecting the periods of the Olympiads. Already in December 2015, Kaniskin, Kirdyapkin and Bakulin received the right to return to the track

January-2014. The biathlete, who returned after the past disqualification, Ekaterina Yuryeva and suddenly flashed on the tracks of the World Cup, Irina the Starykh, were preparing for the home Olympiad, but the presence of recombatic erythropoetin in samples deprived them of the last chance of the Gold of Games. Yuryev was disqualified for eight years, old - for two. At the same time, the national team was left without Alexander Loginov, who refused to open the test B after suspicions of the presence of erythropoetin in the sample A. Loginov could participate in competitions since November 2016.