Richard McLaren
Russia ran an elaborate system that both covered-up and encouraged athletes to use illegal drugs in the 2014 Olympics. The breathtaking dishonesty has been released in Toronto by University of Western Ontario scientist Richard McLaren on behalf of WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency. He tells of a rotten system that started at the top with the minister of sports and went down through elaborate deceptions about positive results. McLaren calls dope testing of Russian athletes the story of the amazing disappearing positive results. The minister was told of every positive result and his instructions to the lab were uniformly to report them as negatives, or non-use of drugs. The entire system was an invitation to Russian athletes to dope themselves at will. McLaren’s report says the Moscow laboratory operated for the protection of doped Russian athletes within a state-dictated failsafe system. Russia’s Ministry of Sport directed, controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athlete’s test results.
