Specimen data of athletes who submitted the Russian sports minister “No falsification” November 8, 8:02

The Russian Ministry of Sports suspected that the data of the athlete's specimen submitted for the restoration of the anti-doping mechanism qualification is suspected to have been altered. Is purely technical and has not been tampered with. "

After the Russian systematic doping issue came to light in 2014, the Russian Ministry of Sports said that in January, WADA = World Anti At the request of the doping mechanism, we submitted data on athlete samples.

However, as a result of collating with the data owned by WADA, there was a suspicion that the data was altered.

On this day, Koropkov Sports Minister told reporters in Moscow on the 7th that "only a few discrepancies were found in each other's data, and the problem was purely technical." No, "he countered.

He mentioned that the amount of data submitted as a cause of technical trouble was as large as 4 terabytes and that the transmission / reception system was an old one built in the 2000s.

WADA continues to investigate this issue with experts, but if tampering is recognized as a fact, Russia may not be able to participate in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.