Report: Russia used secret agents to help Olympians cheat

A group of investigators wants to kick Russia out of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics because of widespread doping and cheating among the country’s athletes. The World Anti-Doping Agency released a report today detailing an elaborate urine-swapping scheme that helped athletes who took performance-enhancing drugs pass their drug tests during the Sochi Winter Games in 2014. The report confirms that the Russian government knowingly participated in the plot, even using agents with the FSB security agency (formerly the KGB) to break into supposedly tamper-proof sample bottles. The International Olympic Committee will meet Tuesday to decide on a response to the allegations. Russia’s track and field team has already been suspended from the upcoming games after a separate investigation revealed drug use by its athletes.