Russian Blood Doping Crisis

Brooke Moore

Wada’s president Craig Reedie said he did not get a single response from Russia to requests to inspect Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/nov/14/wada-clean-athletes-russia-doping-robertson


The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) hit the blood doping jackpot in 2012 when multiple reports concluded that Russia had a systemic blood doping scandal. Russian athletes were found to be blood doping and sending their samples to a small unreliable testing lab that would take the urine samples of doped athletes and exchange the urine for clean samples. This was done secretly at night with the help of the FSB, which is the Russian version of the FBI. When the accused personnel were questioned their answers were nearly word for word which was very suspicious. After the investigation Russia was believed to have cheated and put on probation. They are under a tight watch.


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