late 2016 and law professor richard mclaren reveals the full damning findings of his investigation intotate—sponsored doping programme of breathtaking proportions. the conspiracy was perpetrated from at least 2011 to 2015. over 1,000 russian athletes competing in summer, winter and paralympic sport can be identified as being involved in or benefiting from manipulation to conceal positive doping tests. in a conspiracy that rodchenkov claims went right to the top of the state, he helped dozens of athletes take a cocktail of performance enhancing drugs and evade detection working in a secret part of his sochi lab. supposedly secure bottles were tampered with and positive samples passed through holes in the wall drilled by spies before being swapped. most painful was you have to be awake at 4am when you change table by table and then my colleague waiting, this is the bottle, remember, i'm closing. 0k, go. and this is even coming to a hotel, you cannot sleep. it is a complicated life. in sochi of course the main focus was on those sports where cheating was developed since years. cross—countr

doping scandal because in this hearing by the court of appeals court of appeal is heard from both richard mclaren who submitted who filed the initial report accusing russia of state sponsored doping and his key witness he's key witness who used to run the school the moscow anti doping the board made all the allegations against russia. mentioned before just earlier that the i.o.c. can obviously appeal the appeal this is as it were what does that mean well this means that the i.o.c. they have already issued an official statement about the decision and they are saying that while they are content that eleven people have been found guilty of doping that but they are also saying that those twenty eight people who have been cleared they are saying that this could have an impact on the whole issue of doping and the whole struggle on the whole fight against doping in russia they also saying that apparently the court of appeals did not take into consideration the allegations of the state sponsored doping scheme taking place in russia so obviously this leaves them embarrassed this whole decision because it

richard mclaren. prof. mclaren didn't work alone. he assembled a team of experienced investigators, hard scrabble people who were skeptical of grigory rodchenkov's claims. because he knew he couldn't just rely on grigory rodchenkov's word, he hired people to review all the evidence and also to look at samples of russian athletes, the bottles that had been taken from the lab and moved to a lab in lausanne. what did prof. mclaren and his team of investigators find? they found that grigory rodchenkov was completely credible, and moreover, that his evidence was fully corroborated by the documents they determined to be authentic and a rigorous and expansive testing protocol for the samples which showed clear evidence of tampering both of the bottles themselves because of scratches and marks and because adjustments made to the urine to make salt levels match the salt levels the athlete game at the time of the competition testing. telltale signs that grigory rodchenkov was telling the truth. and most importantly, grigory rodchenkov produced

but of course this decision uses the cas use it use the same witnesses to decide so they used richard mclaren and gorder it or chunk of those are the fundamental witnesses in the doping case overall against russia so in a way this does somewhat undermine the overall decision against russia at least that's the way it's seen here all along after all the russians have said that this is a decision this decision to only allow russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag and so on that this decision is much more political than to do with sports russians see it as an overall narrative and overall western campaign excuse me and overall western anti russian campaign that involves sanctions as well and people here think that it hasn't been based on enough evidence so calling into question those fundamental witnesses really kind of calls into question the whole case from the russian point of view so aleem of this calls into question the whole doping case against russia where does this leave the i.o.c. the i.o.c. has reacted not very happy about the cast the situation but they are holding firm they'r

but of course this decision uses the cas use it use the same witnesses to decide so they used richard mclaren and gorder it or chunk of those are the fundamental witnesses in the doping case overall against russia so in a way this does somewhat undermine the overall decision against russia at least that's the way it's seen here all along after all the russians have said that this is a decision this decision to only allow russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag and so on that this decision is much more political than to do with sports russians see it as an overall narrative and overall western campaign excuse me and overall western anti russian campaign that involves sanctions as well and people here think that it hasn't been based on enough evidence so calling into question those fundamental witnesses really kind of calls into question the whole case from the russian point of view so aleem of this calls into question the whole doping case against russia where does this leave the i.o.c. the i.o.c. has reacted not very happy about the cast the situation that they are holding firm they'