The former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov gave an interview to The New York Times. In it, in particular, he told the story of how he refused to substitute the doping test of Ukrainian biathlete Vita Semerenko, as requested by the Deputy Minister of Sports Yuri Nagornykh. "This concerned Ukrainian biathletes, who represented the most serious threat to the Russian relay team during the Games in Sochi. The Mountainous was especially concerned about this. But I could not do this to an innocent athlete. During my work, I changed a lot of positive doping tests to clean, but not vice versa, "- says the words Rodchenkova edition. Rodchenkov explained his refusal by explaining to the Mountainous regions that it would be noticeable that the drug was poured into urine, and not used by a person. By the way, after the silver medal of Sochi-2014 was deprived Russian woman Olga Viluhina, the award went to Ukrainian biathlete Vite Semerenko. Recall that Rodchenkov's testimony became one of the evidence of mass doping of Russian athletes and the existence in that country of a state program of doping. The other day, a new blow occurred in Russia: the diaries of the informant Rodchenkov. Rodchenkov, who headed the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, moved to the United States in January 2016, after which he became an informant for WADA. He accused the winners and prize-winners of the 2014 Games from Russia in using illegal drugs. IOC conducts an investigation, as a result of which the Russian national team lost 10 medals of the Olympic Games in Sochi and rolled back from the first to the fourth place in the overall standings. In Russia they have already offered to shoot an informant of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Rodchenkov told how he supplied the Russian Olympians before the performance in Sochi with a powerful doping cocktail of his own invention, and the athletes' analyzes were later allegedly substituted by FSB officers through a hole in the wall of his laboratory.

Original article: Before the Sochi 2014 Deputy Minister of Sport of Russia asked to spoil the doping test of Vita Semerenko.