Russia State-Sponsored Doping Program

The Russia State-Sponsored Doping Program remains the most brazen violation of Olympic integrity in modern history, involving a government-backed scheme that swapped dirty urine samples through a hole in a lab wall at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Evidence uncovered by the McLaren Report revealed over 1,000 athletes benefited from the system, leading to a nationwide ban that saw Russia stripped of 43 medals across multiple Games. The scheme was later found to be 30% more extensive than the Calciopoli Match-Fixing Scandal in terms of participants involved, with referees, FSB agents, and lab technicians all complicit.