From the start, country has refused to recognise that its sports officials systematically promoted and concealed taking of steroids
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: SPUTNIK/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS/MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV
The latest developments are an echo of an old scandal. Russia was first accused of running a government-sponsored doping system for athletes in 2014, the year of the Sochi Winter Olympics, Putin’s $50bn extravaganza that was meant to signal Russia’s return as a global power. The accusations were in part fuelled by the testimony of Grigory Rodchenkov, who ran the Moscow doping lab of Rusada, the national antidoping agency.
In December 2018, Ganus addressed Putin directly, calling for the database to be handed over: “It’s very difficult to regain trust when the ghosts of the past hamper our progress.” It’s heartening that a minor Russian sports official doesn’t want to engage in this ham-fisted cover-up, even as people in much higher positions maintain the fiction that the doping scandal is a politicised Western plot against Russia.
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