Systemic doping of Russian athletes during the 2014 Sochi Olympics was facilitated with the help of the country’s internal intelligence agency and through the replacement of urine samples, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Based on interviews with Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, then director of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory, the Times reported that as many as 100 dirty urine samples were replaced through a process that involved a man believed to be an officer with the Federal Security Service (FSB) breaking into bottles thought to be tamper-proof and replacing urine collected after competition with clean urine collected months earlier when the athletes were not doping.