Russia Tries to Avoid Olympic Doping Ban

Up on the fourth floor of Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory, the director’s office is deserted, a large desk standing empty in a corner of the room. Its former occupant, Grigory Rodchenkov, left his post in November and fled to the United States following allegations from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that he had been the kingpin of a state-run scheme of pervasive doping and corruption in Russian athletics.