300 Russian dopers are set to be named

THE extent of the serial Russian doping scandal could soon be laid bare, with possibly hundreds of their athletes exposed as cheats.

The Schmid Report commissioned by the IOC to examine how Russia manipulated the drugtesting process has led to the country being banned from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

And Samuel Schmid, a former president of Switzerland, has made clear how much he had relied for his findings on the massive WADA investigation into the complete file of Moscow laboratory tests from 2011-15 supplied by a whistleblower.

They showed how the Russian state ordered numerous failed drugs test results to be changed to protect their best athletes in what was described by the Schmid commission as ‘disappearing positive methodology’.

WADA are due to hand over their exhaustive analysis of more than 60,000 samples to the international sports federations, who will then have the necessary evidence to take action against those who have so blatantly evaded the anti-doping laws.

So widespread has been the state- controlled cheating and so serious the problem in Russia that, once the federations have been informed, WADA intend to make public the names of over 300 offenders.