From London, GBR
The second half of the McLaren Report on the WADA investigation into the “institutionalized doping conspiracy and cover up” was released on December 9 in London, England.
Among the key findings (as the pertain to winter sports) were:
– “An institutional conspiracy existed across summer and winter sports athletes who participated with Russian officials within the Ministry of Sport and its infastructrue…for the purposes of manipulating doping controls.”
– Athletes themselves were not acting individually, but instead within the infrastructure reported in the first McLaren Report.
– The swapping of Russian athletes’ urine samples confirmed in both reports as occurring during the 2014 Winter Games did not stop at the conclusion of the games, but became a regular practice within the RUSADA Moscow lab.
– Twelve (12) medal winning athletes from the 2014 Winter Games found evidence of tampering from scratches and marks within the caps of their “B Sample” bottles.
– Over 1,000 athletes (between summer, winter, and Paralympic sports) can be identified as having benefited from concealing doping tests.
In a press conference given Friday morning, McLaren stated that all evidence has been passed over to the WADA and the various federations to pursue anti-doping cases.
It should be noted that in all searchable evidence, names have been redacted and replaced with numbers. Per McLaren, those names have been passed to each sports governing body.
At the time of this posting, the IOC has not commented on the new findings, but in a statement made on December 7, the IOC said “once all the evidence has been considered, the IOC Executive Board will then issue the appropriate measure of sanctions related to the Olympic Games.” The IOC had also recommended that sporting organizations make preparations to move World Cup and World Championship events out of Russia.
Currently, the IBSF World Championships are set to be held in Sochi, Russia in February.
The full download of the McLaren report can be found here: Click Here
The McLaren report searchable database can be found here: Click Here
Update to this post: When searching the database, one can type in the evidence code (for example: “The IP began with examining Dr. Rodchenkov’s list of 37 known dirty samples (EDP0648)”, type in EDP0648) and receive that document.
