Rodchenkov Biography

On the testimony of Grigory Rodchenkov, the ex-head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, the admission of the Russian team to the Winter Olympiad in Pyeongchang largely depends. Portrait of the chief informant of the IOC. Belousov advertising will only imagine: Russia remained the winner of the Sochi Olympics in the team standings, there is neither the first nor the second report of Richard McLaren.

There would have been not a lot of things yet if Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory, had not spoke. Today it largely depends on the testimony of the summer chemist what decision to admit the Russian Olympic team to play Pyeongchang will accept the IOC on December 5. DW decided to talk about what kind of person it is. Chemist and Begun Grigory Rodchenkov, a graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University, later defended his thesis.

The topic of doping, by his own admission, was interested when, while still a student, he was engaged in athletics - running at the styers' distances. Before the escape from Russia, in an interview, Rodchenkov said that he had tried all the forbidden drugs on himself - for professional reasons, as he claimed. Over the years of work in anti -doping centers both in Russia and abroad, Rodchenkov accumulated vast experience and unique knowledge that even his worst enemies do not dispute.

Rodchenkova’s acquaintances from Russia are described as a very energetic person who is passionate about his business. He was enough for this energy to lead a double life: to speak around the world with reports on the fight against doping and at the same time, as the athletes assure, to secretly sell them forbidden drugs and cover them for money in cases where they came across. The double life of Rodchenkov, the first scandal associated with his name erupted at the beginning of the year: searches were held in Rodchenkov’s apartment, and he himself was detained on charges of illegal circulation of prohibited drugs for the purpose of sales.

The accusations, however, were brought only to his sister Marina, in the past of the famous runner: she was found guilty, but Rodchenkov himself escaped with a slight fright, he was not even fired. As it turned out from the McLaren report, in December of the year, the Russian thrower Daria Pischalnikova turned to the IOC and WADA, saying that Rodchenkov gives the athletes forbidden drugs and hides their positive samples.

At the end of the year, the German Channel ARD showed a film in which the statement of the runner Julia Stepanova on how she paid Rodchenkov 30 thousand rubles to hide her positive doping test. Other athletes accused him of extortion of exchange for concealing supposedly positive samples. However, despite this, the head of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory was still confident: after the appearance of the ARD film in January, he received the Order of Friendship for his contribution to the success of Russia at the winter games in Sochi.

A sharp turn occurred in November, when WADA published a report of an independent commission, which contained serious accusations against the laboratory and Rodchenkov personally. In particular, he was accused of intentionally destroying more samples in September in order to conceal the use of doping by Russian athletes. Rodchenkov rejected these accusations, claiming that he was destroyed by samples with an expired shelf life, and this destruction was planned.

Then the then Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko, according to Rodchenkov, forced him to write a statement of resignation. Rodchenkov’s flight abroad further happened quickly. Here's how the familiar Rodchenkova, American director Brian Fogel, who shot a film about doping, told Der Spiegel about this: Rodchenkov said in a conversation with him that he was afraid of his life.

Vogel, in his own words, bought him a ticket to Los Angeles. Having copied all the work files and correspondence, Rodchenkov flew out of Russia on November 17. The press usually states that today it is under the FBI witness program and its whereabouts are unknown. Last year, the newspaper Sport-Express claimed, however, that she found a new place of work of a fugitive chemist: the Redwood Toxicology Laboratory Laboratory in California.

Flauraud is largely on Rodchenkov’s testimony scandalous reports of McLaren, which came to the conclusion that there are large -scale frauds with prohibited drugs in Russian sports. There you can read about the so -called “Duches” cocktail - a mixture of steroids and alcohol, which Rodchenkov, according to him, came up with himself. Rodchenkov also spoke about the comic in his criminal ingenuity of the story about the “mouse burr” - the holes allegedly made to exchange doping tests between the Rodchenkov’s cabinet in the anti -doping laboratory in Sochi and the office of the FSB officer, which acted under the guise.

In Russia, Rodchenkova today is portrayed by a villain who alone organized corruption schemes for supplying athletes forbidden drugs and manipulation of samples.In September, the Basmanny Court arrested him in absentia and put it on the international wanted list, and the Investigative Committee brought two criminal cases to Rodchenkov under the articles of the Criminal Code of “abuse of authority” and “obstruction of a preliminary investigation” and requires extradition from the United States.

But Maclaren and the IOC consider the testimony of the former chief of the anti -doping laboratory on complicity in doping frauds of Russian sports functionaries and FSB agents deserving. His testimonies, says Maclaren, converge with numerous other evidence - no matter what motives Rodchenkov leads. The diary records of the pedant is possible that Grigory Rodchenkov was able to hide the facts of the use of doping as well as documenting them.

The most personal part of his evidence - excerpts from diary entries made, stated in Russia - published The New York Times. They obviously belong to the pedantic, organized to a person who pays attention and thinks through all small details. The records describe the meetings of Rodchenkov with the Russian sports leadership - the then Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko, his deputy Yuri Nagorny, and their conversations, including how to “protect” athletes, replacing their samples.

The fact that Rodchenkov led the records, according to Vogel, testified to how he was concerned about his own security. Perhaps it was precisely these motives that he moved him to tell the world about the doping system in Russia, of which he himself was.