Stepanov informants WADA received support from the IOC

Informers of the World Anti -Doping Agency Julia and Vitaly Stepanov received support from the International Olympic Committee. According to the portal of Inside the Games, after meeting with the President of the IOC Thomas Bach, Julia Stepanova received a financial grant, and her husband was a position in the organization. Vitaliy Stepanov will become a IOC consultant on doping, doping control and protection of athletes.

Stepanov thanked the IOC for such an opportunity, saying that he would be happy to continue to fight the doping of "in any possible ways."

“We want to show other athletes that it is necessary to fight doping, and the organizations will support athletes who want to make sport cleaner and more fair. Julia asks for forgiveness for their past mistakes, for being silent about the use of doping. She was convinced that doping is the only way for the athlete to be competitive at the international level,” added a athlete’s husband.

Julia Stepanov was disqualified for the use of doping in 2013. Later, along with her husband, she became the main informant for the film by the German television channel ARD about doping issues in Russian athletics. After the IOC decided to remove it from the 2016 Olympics, Stepanova asked to revise the verdict, saying that "the IOC decision is unfair, as it is based on incorrect and false statements."

On May 7, the former Rusad employee Vitaly Stepanov said in the CBS News program 60 minutes that at least four Russian athletes who won the gold medals of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, used doping . According to Stepanov, the ex-head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, which is currently living in the United States, told him that employees of the Russian special services were involved in violations of anti-doping norms at the 2014 Olympics. "The FSB tried to control every step of the anti -doping process in Sochi," Stepanov said. Also, he claims, Rodchenkov has a "list of Sochi", which contains the names of Russian athletes who accepted steroids.

Vitaly Mutko, who then held the post of head of the Ministry of Sports, said that the charges made by Stepanov were based on speculation. “This will continue for a long time,” the minister said. “Stepanov sat down on his skate again. He will endlessly talk about doping in Russian sports. This was in the first film, continued in the next. All his so -called revelations are based on speculations. And they are actively replicated.”

On July 18, the independent WADA commission, led by Richard McLaren, presented a report on the results of the investigation of accusations of doping fraud at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. The report states that the method of replacing doping tests in Russia was used in 643 cases from 2012 to 2015, and athletes from 30 sports were involved in the system.

On August 7, the International Paralympic Committee on the basis of a McLebral report was disqualified by the Russian Paralympic Committee and removed Russian athletes from participating in the 2016 games.