adminSOCHI. — Russia, for years after the fall of the Soviet Union notorious as one of the world’s worst offenders in the fight against doping in sport, is finally making progress to crack down on drug cheats at home ahead of the Winter Olympics.Critics point to the fact that several-high profile dope cheats are still being uncovered every year in Russia but sports officials in the country say that this is evidence that a revamped anti-doping system is finally working.
Patrick Schamasch was in 2008 the medical and scientific director of the International Olympic Committee and declared then that Russia was a country “where no control is possible and where the lives of testers is even in danger.”
But it was in 2008, a year after Russia was awarded the right to host the Winter Olympics that will open in 100 days, that the authorities created the country’s first anti-doping agency Rusada to fight against an increasing blight on sport. — AFP.
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