Sport security

Post-Soviet Doping and International Sports’ Corruption Problem

And on Monday, investigators from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accused professional Russian athletes, including Olympians and marathoners, of participating in a state-run doping program that implicates some of the country’s top sports officials.

According to the WADA, an independent agency established with support from the International Olympic Committee in 1999, the doping scandal was not limited to the athletes themselves. Russian trainers, coaches, doctors, government employees, and staff at a laboratory that oversaw drug testing during the 2014 Sochi Olympics were all complicit in providing the drugs or helping to cover it up, concluded a WADA report released Monday.