World Anti-Doping Agency says all of Russia's Track and Field athletes should be banned from 2016 Olympics
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All of Russia's track and field athletes could be barred from the 2016 Summer Olympics after a much-awaited report by the World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday detailed evidence of an orchestrated program of cheating within the country.
A WADA independent commission alleged that Russian track officials, coaches and doctors promoted a "win at all costs" mentality that encouraged and sometimes pressured athletes into using performance-enhancing drugs.
With language that evoked memories of state-sponsored doping in the former East Germany, the commission wrote that Russia's intelligence service, the FSB, infiltrated an anti-doping lab in Moscow and intimidated personnel.
Investigators suggested that Russia may also have used a laboratory on the outskirts of Moscow to pre-screen samples and circumvent positive results.http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-wada-report-doping-russia-20151109-story.html