MOSCOW — Enraged by its blanket ban from the Paralympic Games and the exclusion of scores of its athletes from the Olympic Games, Moscow is ramping up a campaign against a Russian doctor who provided detailed evidence of state-sponsored doping.
Entrusted earlier this summer with hearing a criminal case filed against the doctor, a Moscow court has ordered the seizure of property belonging to the whistle-blower, Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Russia’s antidoping laboratory.
The order is part of a sustained effort by Russian officials and state-run news media to discredit a man who has been reviled in Russia as a traitorous liar serving foreign interests, but whose account the World Anti-Doping Agency has determined was accurate.