Russia accepts Olympic Committee plan to retest athletes
The IOC’s declaration Friday followed the publication of a report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren. This said that more than 1,000 Russian athletes, including medal winners at the London and Sochi games, had benefited from a state-backed campaign of doping and drug test cover-ups.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, who was sports minister at the time of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics, tells Russian state agency R-Sport that “the IOC has now decided to retest all the samples; let them retest.”
Mutko also suggests he does not expect Russia to be barred from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.