Whistleblower or turncoat, Russian anti-doping czar “knows where bodies are buried” (Reuters)

By Christian Lowe and Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) – The decision by Russia’s former chief anti-doping scientist to come forward with details of what he described as an extensive program to cheat at the Sochi Olympics takes the crisis over drugs in Russian sport to a new level of severity. It could suck in hundreds more athletes, keep Russian track-and-field competitors out of the Rio Olympics, force Russian President Vladimir Putin to purge his sports minister and tarnish one of Putin’s proudest achievements: reviving Russian sport. Allegations about officially sanctioned doping in Russian sport have been rumbling for months, but Moscow has been able to argue that the witnesses were unreliable and if there was wrongdoing, it was just a few isolated cases.