The number was alarming if not surprising — more than 1,000 positive drug samples covered up by a Russian system that for years circumvented anti-doping rules.
How Russian sport and government did that has been the subject of two investigations commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. But in exposing the Russian scandal, WADA has highlighted gaps in its own monitoring.
A second report released by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren on Friday revealed that more than 1,231 samples were reported to the sports ministry as positive while either being entered as negative or not entered as well into WADA’s database, which is known as ADAMS.