Doping X-Files. The continuing Russian doping scandal: a fight to clean up sport or a witch-hunt?

The Russian doping scandal is entering a new chapter in the run-up to the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. As in 2018, the national team faces another blanket ban should the World Anti-Doping Agency prove the lab data manipulation by Russians.

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As questions abound over the doping controversy, our correspondent, Konstantin Rozhkov, recaps the events that led to the current investigation and tries to get to the bottom of the fresh allegations. What makes Russia’s anti-doping chief, Yury Ganus, admit guilt before accusations were even levelled against the country? How could athletes’ records be tampered with in the Moscow lab? Could the answer to whole doping story lie beyond the fight to clean up sport?

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