Rodchenkov: President of the Biathlonists of Russia Kravtsov is involved in doping schemes

The president of the Russian Biathlonian Union Alexander Kravtsov was involved in the implementation of the Moscow Doping Program. This was announced by the former director of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov in his new interview with The New York Times, published on Saturday.

Kravtsov headed the Russian team at the Olympics in Sochi. Rodchenkov reported the first time about the involvement of the functionary in doping schemes.

In particular, the emigrant said, the personal driver of Kravtsov repeatedly carried the FSB operatives to the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory for the substitution of samples of athletes.

Rodchenkov added with Kravtsov himself, at different times he discussed the implementation of certain aspects of the doping program.

The emigrant also said that the biathlete Vita Semerenko was the Ukrainian athlete, who was instructed to discredit . The task to spoil the athlete’s doping test before the Olympics in Sochi, Rodchenkov specified, did not come directly from the head of the Ministry of Sports Vitaly Mutko, as the Mail of Sunday wrote earlier, but from the deputy minister of Yuri of the Nagorny. In the current interview, the former functionary confirmed that he refused to fulfill this task, referring to the “clean” sample cannot be made “dirty” - in the course of the subsequent detailed check, the falsification will certainly be discovered.

Earlier this week, NYT published excerpts from Rodchenkov’s diary for 2014. They talked about the doping frauds of Mutko, Nagorny and functionaries of the Olympic Committee of Russia.

In the nearest Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee will consider the issue of Russia's participation in the 2018 Winter Olympiad in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang. There is a high probability that the Russian team in full force will be removed from the competition.