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Whistleblower claims Putin ordered state doping programme

Russian President Vladimir Putin [Photo: Courtesy]

Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, the source of revelations about Moscow's state-sponsored doping, claims in a German TV report that was aired on Monday that President Vladimir Putin ordered the conspiracy.

"Of course it came all the way from the top, from the president," Rodchenkov told German public broadcaster ARD in a phone interview, according to a report on the station's website.

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