This is reported by the Match TV.

According to Rodchenkov, during the competitions in Moscow, which took place shortly before the Olympics in Sochi, he was approached by the former deputy minister of sports of Russia Yuri Nagornykh with a request to substitute a dope test for a Ukrainian woman. However, as Rodchenkov claims, he could not do this with a mature athlete.

He noted that he refused to do this: "I could not do this with an innocent athlete. During my work I changed a lot of dirty dope-samples to clean, but not vice versa ".

At the same time, Simerenko herself claims that everything is just pawns. "I want to believe that the culprits will be punished", - stressed the Ukrainian.

Recall, as previously reported, "URA-Inform", Ukrainian biathletes after two days of staying at home went to the first stage of the World Cup in Swedish Ostersund. the starting stage of the new season in the application were Sergei Semenov, Dmitry Pidruchny, Artem Prima, Alexander Zhirny, Vladimir Semakov and Ruslan Tkalenko.