The World Anti-Doping Agency will immediately look into the latest Russian doping allegations after last week’s report that four Sochi Olympic gold medalists were taking steroids.
“WADA will probe these new allegations immediately,” WADA president Craig Reedie said in a press release. “The claims made in the program offer real cause for concern, as they contain new allegations regarding attempts to subvert the anti-doping process at the Sochi Games.”
Last week’s CBS report was based on a whistleblower who previously provided evidence of Russian track and field doping.
The whistleblower, Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official, said he learned of Russian cheating at the Sochi Olympics from Grigory Rodchenkov, former director of a Moscow drug-testing lab that was stripped of its accreditation by the World Anti-Doping Agency in April.