Russian Doctors Swapped Sochi Olympic Athlete Urine Tests To Avoid Doping, Report Says

Russian doctors and athletes worked together to evade drug tests at the Sochi Olympics, passing containers of urine through a hole in the wall to replace tainted samples, The New York Times has reported.

Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia’s national anti-doping laboratory, is quoted by the newspaper as saying that he replaced samples with clean urine at night through a hole in the wall at the laboratory in Sochi during the 2014 Winter Games.

Athletes took photographs of their drug forms so that the samples could be identified later and switched, according to the story posted Thursday.

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Three gold medalists were listed on a spreadsheet of athletes provided by Rodchenkov, the newspaper reported.

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