Yulia Stepanova grabbed five and a half years in the German television: pills, syringes, protection money. The Russian Doping scandal began with the athletes. Other types of sport and the detection of the fraud of the Russians in their winter Olympic games of Sochi 2014 followed.

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Despite the global outrage test, in spite of the enormous work of investigators and lawyers, and in spite of the mass disqualification liable gedopter Russians at the Olympics in London in 2012 and the world athletics championship Moscow 2013 perceived to be Russia come through with his machinations. At the Games of Rio in 2016, the country was going in the winter games of Pyeongchang 2018 as well. The Trick, instead of the Olympic team to allow for neutral athletes, not caught. The Russian Tricolor brought the audience, the anthem sang, the athletes themselves.

Alone in the Paralympic Games in Rio, the Russians were excluded from the athletics competitions of the Olympic games took a single Russian woman, and she was by Yulia Stepanova, for which the Association seemed to have the Status of the neutral athlete invented. The ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee blocked the Whistleblower.

audacity determines the handling of the Russians with their past and the sanctions. No sooner had they promised, Doping coaches to throw, catch Reporter this when working with their athletes. Doping controls failed in the face of armed Post, because athletes trained on the barracks grounds. The summit was the meticulous Manipulation of data in the sealed Doping control laboratory in Moscow, which should be left to the world Anti-Doping Agency (Wada). As an Association, the high jumper Danil Lysenko certified officials that he was Doping controls are not reachable, as he was lying in the hospital, this brought the barrel to Overflowing. Disease, Doctors, Hospital – everything was invented.

While this is a cruel Film in front of the eyes of the Public, expired, appealed the high jump-world champion, Marija Lasitskene, staff high jump world champion Anzhelika Sidorowa and hurdle Sprinter Sergey Schubenkow desperately to the Almighty sport at the top of your state, the inevitable end to prevent: the second is the exclusion of Russian athletes of the Olympic Games. However, Vladimir Putin has not responded.