Russian Swimming has engaged in systematic doping for several years, according to a report in The Times in the United Kingdom. On the back of this report, WADA has gone on record stating that it would investigate the claims.
Just days after Yuliya Efimova was tagged with a second career positive doping test, and yet continues to claim innocence, news is breaking that a Dr. Sergei Portugalov has been involved in systematic doping within swimming. Portugalov, the Chief of the Russian Athletics Federation’s Medical Commission who has been linked to rampant doping within track and field in Russian, has now been connected to swimming.
“Calls for Russian swimmers to be excluded from the Games will grow after the investigation revealed that Portugalov, the doctor recommended for a lifetime ban by WADA as a key player at the heart of Russia’s doping scandal, actively encouraged the national swimming team to adopt a systematic doping policy,” The Times reported. “Since 2009, when Portugalov first offered to ‘assist’ Russian swimming, 23 swimmers have been handed suspensions for doping and the tally for all aquatics sports exceeds 40 in the past decade.”
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