Russian Dopers

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For Vladimir Putin and Russia, the Olympics were not simply a sports competition; they were a show of power on the world stage. And ahead of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, the national team was criminally advantaged—by a top-secret, state-sponsored steroid program. Learn more ab ...  Show more

While Westminster deals with the fallout from one Russian affair, today’s Stories of our Times podcast is about the couple who blew the whistle on Russia’s state sponsored doping operation in sport. The Sunday Times’ chief sports writer David Walsh told their story to Manveen Ran ...  Show more

Building a massive doping operation to cheat the Olympics was one thing, but for Russia, keeping it secret was the bigger challenge. After one of its former athletes blew the whistle on the operation, Putin oversaw a massive cover-up that saw top officials fleeing the country. Le ...  Show more

Russian officials have acknowledged for the first time to mass doping in the country’s sports system but has dismissed suggestions that it was state sponsored.   Guest: Peter Donnelly, Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto and the ...  Show more