The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) lost its main argument in accusations against Moscow. The witness in the case of "Russian doping" Grigory Rodchenkov at the hearing in the Sports Arbitration (CAS) lost his testimony and could not confirm that Russian athletes were taking illegal drugs, and coaches and senior sports officials knew about this and encouraged. But it was his words that had earlier caused the removal of the Russian national team from the Olympics in Pyeongchang and the loss of many medal winners. As can be seen from the CAS documents, Rodchenkov said on April 22 that he never personally gave Russian athletes a steroid cocktail "Duchess", who allegedly thought up himself. Moreover, he could not remember his recipe. In addition, he never saw how the analyzes of athletes were replaced by "clean" urine and did not know how the numbers of doping tests requiring substitution were reported to the right officials. The result of these testimonies was the justification of the Russian skier Alexander Legkov. The International Sports Court decided to return him the gold medal of Sochi-2014, won in the mass start-up for 50 km and taken away by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in November 2017. on the basis of the report of the WADA commission under the direction of McLaren and testimonies by Rodchenkov. The verdict has already made a lot of noise. WADA and IOC said they would challenge the decision in another court. And experts are puzzled: what kind of game did Rodchenkov start? "He did not completely abandon his testimony. He partially avoided some of his accusations, relying on the fact that his previous statements were probabilistic: he supposedly assumed something like this, but now he does not remember and can not accurately confirm. That is, there is a dirty game, "the head of the commission of the Association of Lawyers of Russia in Sports Law, Sergey Alekseev, commented to the" National Service of News ".. "What happened in CAS is not news. Our party has been saying for two years that all his statements are complete nonsense, "said Nikolai Durmanov, ex-head of the Russian Anti-Doping Service. - When there is an information war, then logic and reason have nothing to do with it. Now we are talking about stimulating emotions, hanging labels, creating a certain information and ideological background, "he stressed in an interview with" Sport Express ". In his opinion, Rodchenkov is simply an instrument of the anti-Russian information war. "WADA is no longer a tool that Rodchenkov himself. It is clear that very different people are playing against us, "Durmanov. Accordingly, it is ridiculous and naive to think that the traitor Rodchenkov repented, decided to publicly apologize and ask for his homeland. Too far gone these games, which resulted in the crippled fate of dozens of athletes, trampled the feelings of the nation, which deprived them of the opportunity to watch the Russian flag at the Olympics in South Korea. And the traitor himself did not just do a plastic surgery and agreed to the Western witness protection program.

So it's too early to rejoice and talk about the victory of Russian sport, believes the president of the Russian Curling Federation, the State Duma deputy Dmitry Svishchev. "I think that not everything is so simple that he partly refused his testimony. I think this is the continuation of some kind of game. I am ready to conclude that speaking in court is a meaningful step, it is for something. ... I think that we are witnessing some new game, where McLaren and Rodchenkov will again come to the first roles, "believes Svishchev.