Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov has been accused of doping.
Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov has been accused of doping by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). WADA has also called for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bar Zhukov from attending the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The IOC has responded by saying that it will not allow anyone who is under investigation to attend, but has not commented on whether or not Zhukov will be barred from attending. The Winter Olympics are scheduled to take place between February 4th and February 20th 2022.
The accusations against Zhukov came after an investigation conducted by WADA into Russian state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. WADA’s report found that “the Moscow Laboratory operated for years as a de facto ‘anti-doping’ department of the [Russian] Ministry of Sport,” and that “the State had control of the Moscow Laboratory through its management structure, budget and personnel decisions.”
Zhukov was appointed as head of Russia’s National Anti-Doping Agency in 2011 and was elected as president of Russia’s Olympic Committee in 2013. He became president of ROC following allegations that former president Vitaly Smirnov had been involved in corruption during his time in office.
