In the state Duma questioned the adequacy of the McLaren
Richard McLaren Member of state Duma Committee on physical culture, sports, tourism and Affairs of youth Vasily Vlasov questioned the competence and adequacy of canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, head of the independent Commission of the world anti-doping Agency (WADA). The MP said “the Tape.ru” on Friday, December 9. “I think he’s not really friends with the head. He would have rebuked the deputies of the state Duma that we ran, and substituted the doping samples of the athletes,” — said Vlasov. In his opinion, Western countries accuse Russia of fraud because you can’t “beat the competition in a fair fight”. “In the West are just afraid of strong opponents, so by all means try to find some fraud,” he concluded. Earlier on Friday, McLaren said that the Russian athletes were systematically participate in the machinations of the doping tests after the failure of the national team at the winter Olympics