Biography
Dr. Doping, Ikar, Pravdvubube, Traitor - How to name Gregory Rodchenkov, Informant Vada, Analytics Chemist, Ex-director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, each decides for itself. The undoubtedly, only the fact that the revelations of the official led to tectonic shifts in Russian sports and took the participation of athletes of the Russian Federation in the Olympiad in the Korean Phenchhan impossible. The condition to go to the competition without flag, anthem and forms not all athletes took.Childhood and youth
Gregory Mikhailovich Rodchenkov Native Moskvich. Born in October 1958. According to unconfirmed information, by the nationality of Rodchenkov - Jew, but in official sources, Russian. The mother of the future analyst chemist and official worked as a doctor in a prestigious central clinical hospital, the Central Support, which was called the Kremlin hospital at the time. About the woman responded as a wonderful pharmacologist.
About the father of Gregory Mikhailovich in open sources of information information not found. Grigory has a sister Marina Rydenkov. Like a brother, in his youth, she was fond of mild athletics and became a two-time world champion.
School Rodchenkov studied at "excellent", the time and lessons to do, and to engage in sports. I succeeded in the first, and in the second: became the champion of the capital, overcoming the first 5-kilometer distance. But Gregory refused to bind a further biography with sports and beloved athletics. After the presentation of the school certificate entered Moscow State University.
At the university, the young man studied chemical kinetics and catalysis. The student was part of the university national team and passed the standard for the title of Sports Master for Athletics. University Grigory Rodchenkov graduated in 1982. He combined two hobbies - sports and chemistry: he investigated the effect of pharmaceutical preparations on the body of athletes.
Antideoping center
As a specialist in doping Grigory Rodchenkov made the first steps in the mid-1980s, at the games of goodwill in the capital. At the competition, he appeared as an employee of the Moscow Anti-Doping Center, where it settled in 1985. According to Roddenkov, then it was possible to detect a prohibited substance in a sample of athlete from Canada Ben Johnson.
If you believe the chemist, at competitions in Moscow, he discovered 14 samples, the promulgation of the results of which threatened to cancel many sports victories. But the Union leaders were banned from "darling a holiday", and the positive samples had to be silent.
Two years later, at the Olympics in Seoul, Johnson came to the doping scandal again. Visited the first in the biographies of the Olympic Games and Grigory Rodchenkov. In South Korea, the specialist set off with a delegation from the USSR. In 1990, the analyst chemist defended his thesis, and another year later the political and economic crisis ranked in the country due to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 1994, Grigory Rodchenkov got a job in "Interlab". The company is a Russian distributor of the American company that supplied electronic medical equipment for chemical analysis. In 1998, Rodchenkov went to Canada, where the year worked as an anti-doping specialist. Returning to his homeland, he worked in companies specializing in the "Oil".
In 2005, Moskvich returned to his profile: Grigoria Rodchenkov appointed the acting head of the metropolitan anti-doping laboratory. In the summer of next year, the Chemist headed the center.
Scandal
The first in the career of Grigory Rodchenkova is a loud scandal about which the media wrote, happened in 2015. The director of the Center was caught in the destruction of thousands of samples of athletes of the Russian Federation. Officials of the International Sports Commission suspected Rodchenkov in the intentional destroying analyzes to conceal the use of doping. But he argued the act that the storage time of the destroyed samples expired.
The management of Vada put forward Gregory Rodchenkov and more serious complaints. He was called the organizer of the criminal scheme. Allegedly an official extorted money from athletes for concealing data on pre-founded drugs. Moreover, Rodchenkov accused of selling those most substances that bring sports victories nearby.
Wada suspected the dependence of the Russian laboratory headed by Gregory Rodchenkov, from Rusada and the Ministry of Sports. Employees of state security bodies were allegedly interferred in the work of an independent anti-doping center, helping to fake tests.
Rodchenkov left the laboratory director chair by writing a statement. It was satisfied in November 2015, but on this scandals did not end.
In early 2016, Grigory Rodchenkov left Russia, stating a threat to life. The ex-official was in America: Brian Fogel, director-documentary from the United States, helped help. Rodchenkov met him after the Olympics in Sochi. The director allegedly addressed the analytics chemist for a consultation: Fogel rented a documentary investigation into doping.
The location of the escaped ex-director of the Doping Laboratory is unknown: he fell under the Federal Program for the Protection of Witnesses. The lawyer Rychenkova for a week did not communicate with the client, not knowing where to look for him. Such reinforced measures for the protection of valuable informant Vada were taken after an interview with the ex-official, which New York Times published in May 2016. Rodchenkov said that it has evidence of the existence of a "state doping program" in the Russian Federation.
In the scandalous interview, Grigory Rychenkov said that she personally replaced hundreds of analyzes of Russian athletes at competitions in Sochi. And also confessed in the invention of a cocktail with Steroids "Diushesis" from American drugs, which were allegedly used Russian athletes on the London (2012) and Sochi (2014) Olympic competitions and reached unprecedented results.
According to him, the athletes rinsed the mouth with a cocktail, the substances absorbed into the mucous membrane and fell into the blood. Later, Rodchenkov admitted that the recipe borrowed from Americans. Invited WADA Independent Expert Richard McLaren in July 2016 published a report in which he told about the results of the investigation into the use of prohibited drugs in Sochi. Maclaren confirmed said Rodchenkov.
Vladimir Putin, having familiarized himself with the report, asked the leadership of WADA to detail and confirm the information, noting that the charges are being built on dubious and unfounded testimony of the only person, besides with a scandalous reputation. About the exposure of doping use Brian Fogel removed the "documentary thriller", which the audience saw in 2017. The hero of the ribbon with the patho name "ICAR" was the Russian chemical scientist.
In Russia, criminal prosecution began against Roddenkov. His roots lead by 2011, when a sister of an official Marina fell into the field of view. The Federal Service, which controls drug trafficking, suspected an athlete on the sale of steroid drugs. Marina and Grigory Rodchenkov's searches were not given the results of the results. Case closed in 2015.
According to the ex-director of the laboratory, the persecution ceased due to its consent to supply the athletes of the Russian Federation at the Winter Olympiad in Sochi forbidden doping. In December 2017, the prosecutor's office opened the previously stopped matter.
This is not the first excited against Gregory Rodchenkov business. In the summer of 2016, after the scandalous interview in the American newspaper, the investigative department of the RF IC of the Russian Federation began a criminal second case against the ex-official by testing abuse of authority. The press release says that the witnesses confirmed that Rodchenkov bought drugs from Gregory, which he brought from the United States, promising to falsify the samples.
In September 2017, a resolution of the Basmanny Court appeared, on the basis of which the fugitive was announced in the international wanted list. In November, the SC of the Russian Federation opened the third criminal case against him.
Personal life
According to unconfirmed information, the family of Grigory Rodchenkov after his escape remained in the country. Veronica's wife was interrogated in the case of her husband as a witness, but her testimony did not help: the woman argued that he did not know about the worship of the spouse.
Veronica Rodchenkov did not recognize the origin of money for which Grigory bought a house and country plots for the wedding of her daughter.
According to information from the media, Rodchenkov has two children in Russia. In addition to her daughter, the family brought up a small son. He stayed with his mother.
Grigory Rodchenkov now
The scandal with a runaway officer continued under the curtain of 2017. In Russia, those who observe the development of the situation around Person Rodchenkov divided. Some justify Grigory Mikhailovich for the fact that he helped open the old problem, and the secret has become apparent. Escaped called a fighter for clean from doping sports.
Others, among them the two-time world champion, Skier Sergey Ustyugov, call Gregory Rodchenkov inadequate man and shame that he was born in Russia.
In early December 2017, IOC removed the Russian national team from the 2018 Olympics, based on Roddenkov's charges. Athletes who will prove "cleanliness" will be able to go to Phenchhan. They will perform under the Olympic flag.
The fugitive under the action of protection program continues to generate sensations and scandals. At the end of December 2017, he promised a new compromising wave, which will destroy Russian Olympic Sports to the nearest five-year plan.