Olympics: Kronzeuge Rodchenkow weighs heavily on Mutko

In the case of state-controlled doping in Russia, new documents have become public in which the former Sports Minister and current Deputy Prime Minister Witali Mutko is severely incriminated. In two diaries of the whistleblower and leniency witness Grigory Rodchenkov, which are closely and manually described, the New York Times has been able to view them exclusively and published extracts on Tuesday, Mutko’s role as the central figure of manipulation at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi is described.

According to Rodchenkov’s records, Mutko has been initiated in detail into the Russian doping and manipulation system. This would be further proof that the Russian state was also involved in the scandal to the highest circles. So far, Russia has denied any state involvement.

The IOC will decide on 5. The report on sanctions against the Russians was presented in Lausanne on 12 December. Rodchenkov, former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Lab, was classified as a credible witness in the statement published on Monday of the lifelong Olympic blockade against cross-country skiing star Alexander Legkov.

Shortly before the start of the matches, Rodchenkov noted in his diary that he had handed Mutko a list of dozens of Russian athletes who had received a specially developed doping cocktail and whose urine samples had to be exchanged for clean urine during the matches.

Earlier, Rodchenkov had expressed his resentment in his notes that the officials around Mutko obviously did not have an exact plan to organize the transport of samples between Moscow and Sochi. According to Rodchenkow, hundreds of samples of clean urine from the top athletes concerned had been stored for months in old baby food jars and water bottles.

“There is no exact interpretation of the plan, it’s just a nightmare,”Rodchenkov wrote on 29. January 2014, one day after two Russian top female biathletes had noticed positive tests:”Mutko is crazy about biathlon, things are getting out of hand and are chaotic,”says Rodchenkov.

Later, the chief witness wrote that the Olympic laboratory in Sochi should continue to be run after the Games on instructions from Mutko, as a place for experiments with new doping methods.”We have solved all the problems,”wrote Rodchenkow on 3 March. February 2014, four days before the start of the Games:”He (Mutko, d. Five days later, Mutko Rotzhchenkov had instructed him to make a written application to this effect.