A report on Russian doping was used by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to uphold a suspension, the first time that information was used to ban an athlete. CAS recently ruled that Russian triple jumper Anna Pyatykh had used banned substances based on records of secret drug testing in 2013. The in-house "washout" tests — forbidden under WADA rules — were used to cover up doping by ensuring the athlete would appear clean later. Pyatykh, who was also found guilty of another doping offense from 2007 unrelated to the McLaren report, denied using any banned substances and said she never gave any samples for illicit or unofficial tests. The McLaren report was aimed at investigating Russian drug use as a whole, rather than proving individual doping cases.

Source: CBC News October 10, 2017 14:26 UTC