The key informant of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Rodchenkov claims that the International Union of Biathlonists (IBU), the International Ski Federation (FIS) and the International Skating Union (ISU) have concealed real data from the stars’ biological passports for several years.
“In the Sochi, in addition to us (Russians), dirty machinations also participated in FIS and IBU. It is incredible how these organizations have filtered and selected only data that did not disturb the graphs of biological passports, creating the illusion of purity.” Forbidden pages quoted by the Russian website Rusbiathlon.
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Grigorij Rodchenkov, former director of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory
According to the former head of the Moscow anti -doping laboratory, these manipulations allowed Wada’s complete confidence to the three sports organizations. The anti -doping commissioners did not have full control or access to athletes’ blood analyzes.
“The IBU, ISU and FIS peeks did what they wanted. They did a lot of things with biological passports, and these cases would be solved for years. The incredible thing is that WADA had no access to the data of the blood tests of these federations,” he described.
Rejection by skiers
The Rodchenko’s claim, however, rejects the International Ski Federation. “We follow the WADA principles for biological passports and provide independent data monitoring. All cases that require investigation are undergoing multi -stage expertise and confirmed by the relevant anti -doping panels,” FIS said in an official statement.
And another criticism came from Russia. “If the person was in charge of anti -doping supervision, he should ensure that no information was concealed. It was logically his responsibility. What are the international federation in common?
He also speculated whether the book was written by Rodchenkov himself, or just someone abused his name. But he called for his claim.
Three years in prison
And there could certainly be something about them, because in 2018 there were extensive personnel changes in the leadership of the Biathletes Union in 2018. The case was also dealt with by the Austrian authorities.
This is one of the reasons why the biathletes of Rodchenko do not categorically refuse, they only emphasize that this applies to the “historical period that has been thoroughly examined and reviewed”. As a result, former IBU President Anders Besseberg was sentenced to three years in prison in Norway and the Sports Arbitration Court forbade him to work in biathlon.
Rodchenkov left his place in Moscow in 2015 and fled to the USA. Thanks to his testimony, McLaren’s report on doping was created in Russian sport.
On the basis of WADA for four years, for four years, she has banned Russian athletes to participate in top events, especially the Olympic Games and the World Championship, under the National Flag. Sports arbitration then reduced the sentence to two years in 2020. Expired in December 2022. But in the meantime, sanctions began to apply in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
According to some reports, Rodchenkov, which, according to some reports, is in the Witnesses Program, in Russia in 2017 was accused of abuse of the authority of an official with severe consequences and included on the international list of wanted persons.
And Moscow is now searching for him again. It results from Thursday data in the database of the Russian Ministry of the Interior, writes Sportbox. But he does not mention exactly what he was to be guilty. It is written that it is sought “on the basis of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”.
