Grigory Rodchenkov oversaw the state-sponsored doping as the head of Moscow’s doping control laboratory. Rodchenkov says Rodionova later told him that Starykh was planning to reveal her doping regimen as orchestrated by Stanislav “Stasik” Dmietriev. Team Russia during the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games. Prokhorov made a defiant promise back then that might have sounded familiar to Russian biathlon fans. Russia won one gold medal in Sochi, not two, and Prokhorov announced not long after the Olympics that he was stepping down as the biathlon president.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 07, 2017 20:35 UTC