Multi-sports: Russia: Mutko holds WADA jointly responsible for doping scandal

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Witali Mutko has blamed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for the systematic fraud of doping in Russia.Mutko referred to the personalie Grigory Rodchenkov, who as head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory was behind the systematic doping practices in Russia.

“They had control of him, they gave him a work permit.But now Russia is being blamed for this,”said the former Sports Minister.

“We have recognized that Rodchenkov himself has violated all the rules, regulations and standards of WADA,”said Mutko to the news agency R-Sport and made it clear:”We fired him,” he continues to insist that the Russian authorities had never conducted a state-sponsored doping program and blamed the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADADA.

“It is necessary to reassure this story and stop blaming all Russian sport because we have been under the control of international sports organisations for two years,”said Mutko.

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In the course of the report by Special Investigator Richard McLaren, WADA had declared RUSADA in November 2015 to be non-compliant and suspended it.Rodchenkov, whose statements were an integral part of the report, was head of the anti-doping laboratory in Moscow for ten years until 2015.

Rodchenkov had reported on a government-sponsored doping system.The chemist is currently in the custody of the U. S. Department of Justice, he was discovered in 2015 and then fled to the United States.

According to the McLaren report, around 1000 Russian athletes have benefited from the doping system in the giant empire between 2011 and 2015.The 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi were also affected.McLaren continues to believe that Russian state doping has been proven over many years.

Before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had refrained from a complete banishment of Russia, but the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) closed the Russian athletes completely.