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The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) claimed yesterday that Russia seemed to have been running a “state-supported” doping programme, with secret laboratories in Moscow destroying evidence.
Wada’s 323-word report unveiled allegations of doping among Russian athletes, with the laboratories covering-up positive doping results by destroying over 1,400 samples.
It also found that the London 2012 Olympics were “sabotaged” by the inaction against Russian athletes.
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from Parliament Square, where a rally slammed the hypocrisy of allowing Israel to bomb Iran and kill hundreds to stop it developing nuclear weapons — the same weapons Israel secretly has and refuses to explain