RUSADA’s interim boss Mikhail Bukhanov had some interesting comments in the Daily Mail today.
‘Other countries have big problems with organised doping — Team Sky, Kenyan track and field, the Nike Oregon Project — but they don’t get the same treatment.
'On one hand we are alleged to have delayed and changed data from the Moscow lab, and now we hear that Team Sky’s doctor lost one laptop, destroyed another and "can’t access" the hard drive on the third. Is that right?
'All Russian sports people to be painted as cheats, but Farah, Wiggins and (Chris) Froome are still heroes?....
'But I can also tell you we don’t come across such organised activities like we read about with BALCO, US Postal, Team Sky, Nike Oregon Project and Operacion Puerto stories. Many other countries have had substantial doping problems but no blanket ban was imposed on those nations.''