Q&a On The Russian Doping Scandal

A World Anti-Doping Agency panel delivered a 323-page document Monday loaded with evidence of bribery, government-backed corruption, doping and hiding positive tests to let cheaters compete at the previous Olympics. "The Olympic Games in London were, in a sense, sabotaged by the admission of athletes who should have not been competing," the report said. The report details a systematic program of cheating and financial corruption that Pound called "state-supported." According to the report, athletes were helped to use doping substances and evade detection by corrupt state-funded agencies: the Russian athletics federation, the testing laboratory in Moscow and anti-doping agency RUSADA. Even the FSB intelligence agency oversaw the lab and embedded spies at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, witnesses told the inquiry. Pound clearly stated his concerns about the sports minister's role in such a wide doping conspiracy. Pound and other inquiry members interviewed Mutko in September at the Baur au Lac in Zurich, the luxury hotel that was the scene of early-morning police raids in May that sparked FIFA's corruption crisis. German network ARD broadcast a documentary last December with evidence from athletes and anti-doping officials who turned whistleblower.

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