Grigory Rodchenkov: “Alina Zagitova won gold by defeating Evgenia Medvedeva – it’s well-deserved for Medvedeva She shouldn’t have paraded around Lausanne with those liars, appealing for sympathy.”

Grigory Rodchenkov reveals satisfaction over Alina Zagitova’s Olympic victory

original source: Sport24

Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, confessed in his book Doping. Forbidden Pages that he was glad to see Evgenia Medvedeva lose to Alina Zagitova at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, where Zagitova won gold in women’s figure skating.

“Alina Zagitova won gold by defeating Evgenia Medvedeva – it’s well-deserved for Medvedeva,” Rodchenkov wrote. “God marks a scoundrel. Medvedeva shouldn’t have paraded around Lausanne with those liars, Smirnov and Zhukov, appealing for sympathy and acting pitiful alongside them,” he added in his book.

Previously, it was reported that Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs had announced Rodchenkov’s renewed status on its wanted list. Rodchenkov, a whistleblower for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), claimed that Russia carried out a doping program at the 2014 Sochi Olympics aimed at achieving dominance at the home Games.

To recall, in December 2017, then-president of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov, honorary IOC member and chair of the Independent Public Anti-Doping Commission Vitaly Smirnov, and Medvedeva participated in an IOC Executive Board meeting in Switzerland. The agenda focused on whether Russian athletes would be allowed to compete at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics following allegations of systematic doping.

Ultimately, Russian athletes competed in PyeongChang under a neutral flag, meeting certain conditions set by the IOC. They were officially designated as “Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR)” in the event’s official protocols.

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