WADA appoints McLaren to oversee Sochi investigation (Yahoo Sports)

World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie has appointed Richard McLaren as the independent overseer of an investigation into allegations of state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Reedie issued a statement late Thursday saying McLaren, a long-standing member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and a member of WADA’s three-person independent commission which exposed wide-spread doping in Russian track and field, would investigate allegations published by CBS’ ”60 Minutes” and the New York Times in the relation to the Sochi Olympics. A WADA report last year outlined a state-sponsored doping scheme in Russia.