Russia at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
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Russia competed as the host nation at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, held between 7–16 March 2014. Russia's 80 medals count is the highest medals ever recorded. The previous record was held by Austria with 70 medals in 1984.
Russia at the 2014 Winter Paralympics | |
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IPC code | RUS |
NPC | Russian Paralympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Sochi | |
Competitors | 69 in 5 sports |
Flag bearers | Valerii Redkozubov (opening) Mikhalina Lysova (closing) |
Medals Ranked 1st |
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Winter Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
Soviet Union (1988) Unified Team (1992) Neutral Paralympic Athletes (2018) |
In December 2014, German public broadcaster ARD aired a documentary which made wide-ranging allegations that Russia organized a state-run doping program which supplied their athletes with performance-enhancing drugs.[1] In November 2015, Russia's track and field team was provisionally suspended by the IAAF.[2]
In May 2016, The New York Times published allegations by the former director of Russia's anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, that a conspiracy of corrupt anti-doping officials, FSB intelligence agents, and compliant Russian athletes used banned substances to gain an unfair advantage during the Games.[3][4][5][6]
On 9 December 2016, Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren published the second part of his independent report. The investigation found that from 2011 to 2015, more than 1,000 Russian competitors in various sports (including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports) benefited from the cover-up.[7][8][9] Emails indicate that they included five blind powerlifters, who may have been given drugs without their knowledge, and a fifteen-year-old.[10]