The former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, assures us that the system of using banned substances was already in place in the Soviet era, and the staff of the State Committee for Sports and KGB. Despite the fact that the WADA informant during those competitions was still studying at the MSU chemistry department and had nothing to do with the anti-doping sphere, he claims that the doping system at the 1980 Games was similar to that used at the Sochi 2014 Olympics. This is reported Play the Game. Through his lawyer Rodchenkov accused the deputy head of the State Sports Committee for Sports Medicine and Doping Control Gennady Markov that he was engaged in substitution of samples. "When I came to the laboratory in 1985, there was a system of giving incorrect information about positive tests to protect athletes who used dope. In the laboratory during major tournaments, there were often KGB officers. They participated in the substitution of dirty samples for clean. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, we conducted tests before the competition to make sure that there is no exogenous testosterone in the body, "he said..

At the same time Rodchenkov's words were confirmed by the former KGB agent Vladimir Popov, who has been permanently residing in Canada since 1995. He noted that the manipulation of doping during the Games was attended by a KGB officer Boris Parkin.

Honorary President of the Russian Football Union (RFU), Vyacheslav Koloskov, with the words of the former head of the Moscow andidoping laboratory, was indignant and called them "nonsense". Koloskov noted that at the Olympic Games -1980 in Moscow athletes used only natural products, exclusively honey and black caviar.

"And where was Rodchenkov himself at the Olympics-80? He studied at school? Well, it's completely nonsense! In general, do not react to his words, stupidity. At that time, there was no concept of doping. We then had a special institute for medical and biological affairs in sports. There they dealt with the problem of restoring athletes. I remember that all the preparations were from natural products - various poisons, roots from Siberia, from which they made potions. From the Far East brought mollusks. Useful for athletes were honey, nuts. And the most important reductant is black caviar, that's our only dope at the Olympics, "- quotes Koloskov's words" Sport-Express ".

In 2016 Rodchenkov became the main informer of the scandalous investigation of WADA about the existing state doping system in Russia, which was actively used at the Games in Sochi. After in Russia several criminal cases were brought against Rodchenkov on charges of abuse of official authority, he fled to the United States. Over the ocean, Rodchenkov continued his statements about the existence in Russia of a doping system supported by the state. As a result, his statements led to the elimination of the Russian national team for the Olympics in Pyeongchang.