HOW DID RUSSIA MANAGE TO CHEAT IN THE WINTER OLYMPICS IN 2014?
Russia is absolutely known for never cheating, or breaking any rules, especially with something as prestigious as the Olympics.
After a disappointing 2010 Winter Olympics, the Russians clearly wanted to make a statement in the 2014 showdown. In 2016, the former head of the Russian anti-doping programme spilled the beans on the entire operation.
According to a few sources, “Russian anti-doping experts and members of the FSB, the Russian intelligence service, secretly replaced urine samples containing banned substances of medal winners with clean urine.”
And how did they replace them? The Russians made a small hole – big enough for the samples to be passed through in the ground of the lab. They then replaced all the bottles.
The bottles which would have been heavily tainted with performance-enhancing drugs were then carried out by a Russian agent pretending to be a sewer engineer.
The Russians won 33 medals, a 17 medal increase from 2010. I guess Russia will need to consider whether cheating and breaking the rules in the Olympics a viable long-term strategy.