GR: ‘Of course.’. One night your house will go up in smoke, with you and your computer inside!’, The 2014 Sochi Olympics closing ceremony. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Rodchenkov was the brains behind the Duchess cocktail of anabolic steroids and cover-up that turned Russia into a medal machine at the home Olympics in Sochi in 2014, topping the standings with 13 gold medals before disqualifications. Twelve days before Vyacheslav Sinev, head of the same agency between 2008 and 2010, was also found dead. But in corrupted countries you have to escape and we need to be preserved.". Although I felt relaxed in Los Angeles, keeping the Sochi story bottled up left me on edge. More of the cases he helped to cover-up could soon come to light after the World Anti-Doping Agency shared data -- of samples tested up to 2015, and tampering that continued into 2019 -- that was retrieved from the Moscow testing lab at the heart of the state-backed doping program. But in corrupted countries you have to escape and we need to be preserved.". "I told him, 'Forget you are meeting me, yes it's me, don't tell anyone.' And he had no intention of making any copies – unlike me, he was not a paranoid alarmist and thought he was living in a normal country. In [the] Soviet [Union] it was the Soviet moral, in Russia there is no morals.". Il a également été souligné dans le rapport McLaren que « Rodtchenkov faisait partie intégrante de la conspiration pour extorquer de l'argent aux athlètes afin de couvrir les résultats positifs des tests de dopage »[4]. He lay down and realised almost immediately that he was dying. So there is no doubt that he wants me to be dead.". Even though I was staying in a different part of town, Bryan was my host in L.A., and we spent many hours getting to know each other. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Néanmoins, il est surveillé par l'AMA, qui suspecte des échanges d'échantillons d'urine à Moscou[2]. Go back four decades and Rodchenkov was starting out in a Soviet system learning how to manipulate doping controls. "Sport is a part of Putin's politics and showing to the West how good Russia is," Rodchenkov said. "I had honestly, I'm sorry, but I had huge feelings of accomplishment," he said. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. Did I feel myself transformed into a truth-teller, a whistleblower or a traitor to my country? But why now trust Rodchenkov as he presents a virtuous image at odds with his deep collusion with the state to cheat? I could tell he was wondering whether I had information that might affect the documentary he was shooting. Nuestro servicio es confiado por muchos expatriados de habla inglesa, jubilados y turistas. Image: Matthew Stockman/Getty. ‘Calm down  –  I’ve only jotted down about fifty pages of notes. To call his death a mystery would be an understatement. ‘Oh, Grinya, you are emotional, even paranoid and you always exaggerate your fears,’ Nikita replied. In principle, he just wanted to check if it is possible to cheat the doping controls, following the Lance Armstrong scandal in 2013, but ended up encountering the biggest doping operation in the history of the sport. By this time, I knew I had passed the point of no return. He and I were colleagues at the VNIIFK back in the late 1980s, and often exercised together in the gym after work. Late one evening, I finally spat it out and told him that we had swapped samples in the Sochi laboratory. Après les Jeux olympiques d'hiver 2014 à Sotchi, le Président russe Vladimir Poutine a accordé à Rodchenkov l'Ordre de l'Amitié[8]. In the last interview he gave, under a balaclava and sunglasses to the BBC, Grigory says that «If I had not escaped from Russia, I would be in a grave right now». They perform functions like preventing the same content from reappearing, ensuring ads are displayed and, in some cases, selecting content based on your interests. On the day he died, Nikita visited his lawyer and then went skiing in the forest next to his house. These cookies do not store any personal information. Exposing Russia's state-sponsorship doping scheme forced Rodchenkov into hiding in the United States five years ago. wid: "595303", But Nikita had no intention of taking my advice, or of leaving his home at the Ozero Krugloye resort ten miles outside Moscow, where he lived with his 85-year-old mother. "I am falling in the betrayers' category and all betrayers should be beheaded, cut, dead. He is diagnosed as "personality disorder." "You cannot trust Russia. So Russian athletes can still compete on the international stage if they can show they are clean, despite a four-year ban from major international sporting events being imposed on the nation last year for a fresh cover-up, including tampering with data gained from Rodchenkov's former lab in Moscow. Grigory Mikhailovich Rodchenkov est l'ancien directeur du laboratoire de l'Agence mondiale antidopage de Moscou, puis de celui de Sotchi durant les Jeux olympiques de Sotchi 2014. + qs; The doping cover-up extended beyond the Winter Olympics, into the Summer Games, Paralympics, world athletics championships and every major sport. His head covered in a black balaclava, adjusting dark goggles obscuring his eyes, Grigory Rodchenkov grows anxious if any part of his face can be seen. "It's extremely debatable and still ungrounded," he said. He started calling me a ‘shark’, and then joked that he had landed ‘a big fish’. Then using some programs, we won gold medals. Who else could tell this story? En 2016, après que les allégations de dopage aient été largement rapporté, Poutine a décrit Rodchenkov comme « un homme avec une réputation scandaleuse »[12]. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. var qs = Object.keys(params).reduce(function(a, k){ a.push(k + '=' + encodeURIComponent(params[k])); return a},[]).join(String.fromCharCode(38)); That day, I wrote in my diary: ‘It’s over. Especially now, according to Rodchenkov, following constitutional changes allowing Putin to run for two more six-year terms, in 2024 and 2030, "Until 2036," Rodchenkov said, "no trust.". "Those athletes I helped to [win] were extremely talented and I could not understand, with the coach, how he or she may lose to others. “Without any doubt in my mind, I can say he knows he is going to be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life.” Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory, first exposed the scheme to The New York Times in 2016. "The problem is that the people from outside cannot understand what is going on inside sports," he said. Il apprend l'anglais lors de déplacements en Occident pour son travail. Grigory Mikhailovich Rodchenkov (en russe : Григорий Михайлович Родченков ; né le 24 octobre 1958 à Moscou) est l'ancien directeur du laboratoire de l'Agence mondiale antidopage (AMA) de Moscou, puis de celui de Sotchi durant les Jeux olympiques de Sotchi 2014. })(document); Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. He remarked to Anna what a banal ending it seemed, and that he loved her very much. "When you are laboratory director and you have 50 employees and you are reporting to your high ups at the ministry, I could not even think about morals," he said, dismissing concerns about any long-term damage to the health of athletes he allowed to be pumped with steroids. From Moscow they defended themselves by bringing to light Grigory's psychiatric history, admitted in 2011 for a suicide attempt. d.getElementById("contentad595303").appendChild(s); Grigory Rodchenkov fled to the United States after Moscow issued an arrest warrant XXIII Olympic Winter Games Venue: Pyeongchang, South Korea Dates: 9-25 February Revealing his current identity is still too risky for the chemist turned whistleblower, even in a video interview from an undisclosed location. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. You have come to the Philippines Edition, for other ESPN editions, click here. "You cannot trust Russia. How did figure skaters prepare for Skate America during a pandemic? "Only whistleblowers could do that. In order to know the limits of his physical condition he contacts several scientists of the most important anti-doping laboratories in the world, who finally lead him to Grigory Rodchenkov, at that time, Director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Center, a position he held between 2006 and 2015. But why now trust Rodchenkov as he presents a virtuous image at odds with his deep collusion with the state to cheat? It worked ‘like a Swiss clock’, as a confidential witness noted in the Pound Report. "I had honestly, I'm sorry, but I had huge feelings of accomplishment," he said. ", Whistleblower on Russia: They want me dead. Bryan insisted on knowing what I was holding back. The simple thought hit me each day that if something were to happen to me, the Sochi story would never be told. Some Russians were barred from competing at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games and 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games as the International Olympic Committee remains opposed to blanket bans on countries. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Strictly Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. The only explanation was doping. Honestly it was like leveling the field. Given that the FSB had tapped his phone, they now knew that I was writing an exposé of Russian doping. Evgeny Blokhin probably knew enough to explain what happened in Sochi, but why would he want to? In this headquarters, during the Olympics, a laboratory was installed, now converted into a bar, in which boats were handled with samples of Russian athletes. Faculté de chimie de l'université d'État de Moscou, « Rodtchenkov faisait partie intégrante de la conspiration pour extorquer de l'argent aux athlètes afin de couvrir les résultats positifs des tests de dopage », « un homme avec une réputation scandaleuse », Certificat du mérite du président de la fédération de Russie, système de dopage institutionnel organisé par la Russie, Jeux olympiques d'hiver de PeyongChang 2018, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grigory_Rodchenkov&oldid=173470702, Étudiant de l'université d'État de Moscou, Récipiendaire de l'ordre de l'Amitié (Russie), Article contenant un appel à traduction en anglais, Portail:Biographie/Articles liés/Sciences, Portail:Biographie/Articles liés/Politique, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. . Outside of Russia, I was the sole possessor of perhaps the greatest secret in twenty-first-century sport: I knew that the Russians had devised an unimaginably audacious cheating scheme for the Sochi Olympics, and got away with it. Rodchenkov a également donné des détails au New York Times, alléguant que le Service Fédéral de Sécurité (FSB) est impliqué dans la dissimulation des échantillons d'urine d'athlètes positifs[8].