More than 1000 Russian athletes, including Olympic medalists, are implicated in the McLaren report on Russian state-sponsored doping. <br /><br /> The report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says that athletes competing in summer, winter, and paralympic sports were either involved directly, or gained an advantage from a state-sponsored doping programme, dating back to 2011. <br /><br /> The author of the report, the Canadian sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren, said that the “medal-winning conspiracy” continued after the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.<br /><br /> This is the second part of a report giving more details of an elaborate state-sponsored doping scheme operated by Russia, first revealed in July.<br /><br /> London Olympics ‘corrupted’<br /><br /> More than 30 sports were involved, the report says, in concealing positive doping samples. It claims there was a systematic cover-up, which was refined at the 2012 Olympics in London, as well as the 2013 World Athletics Championships and 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.<br /><br /> Professor McLaren said there was evidence that more than 500 positive results were reported as negative, including well-known and top-level athletes whose positive results were automatically falsified.<br /><br /> No Russian athlete tested positive at the London Olympics, where Russia won dozens of medals.<br /><br /> “The Russian team corrupted the London Games on an unprecedented scale,” McLaren said.<br /><br /> The first part of the report, published in July, found Moscow had concealed hundred of positive doping tests in many sports and led to a partial ban of Russian athletes competing in the Rio Olympics this year.<br /><br /> However the International Olympic Committee rejected a blanket ban and let individual international sports federations decide which athletes should be allowed to compete.<br /><br /> Russian officials have dismissed the latest report as the work of only one individual.<br />
