“…The whistleblower who exposed the state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes has claimed Vladimir Putin personally helped orchestrate the scandal. Grigory Rodchenkov, who was head of the Moscow laboratory behind the widespread drug cheating, says the Russian President ordered his release from prison, where he was being held on drug charges. Putin then arranged for him to get his job back at the lab to help competitors cheat at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, he said, where success was all-important for the Russians on home soil…”
