Grigory Rodchenkov is "proud" of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for ruling that Russian athletes must compete as neutrals at Pyeongchang 2018 but still fears for his life even in witness protection in the United States, his lawyer warned today.

Former Moscow Laboratory director turned whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov is to respond to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision on Russian participation at Pyeongchang 2018 via his lawyer here tomorrow.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have backed former Moscow Laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov as a "truthful witness" in their first reasoned decision published following the Sochi 2014 doping scandal.

Honorary Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Leonid Tyagachev has made a death threat against former Moscow Laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov, after claiming he needs to be "shot for his untruths" following his revelations about the doping scheme in the country.

Russia's Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov has once again claimed his country is innocent of allegations of institutionalised doping and called for athletes not to be denied the opportunity to compete at next year's Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang.

An internal Investigative committee charged with assessing evidence of institutional doping in Russia has supposedly found no proof and attempted to pin the blame solely on former Moscow Laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov.

Two International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigations into evidence of institutional doping in Russia still have no completion date as the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games draw ever closer.

An arrest warrant has been issued by a court in Moscow for Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia's anti-doping laboratory before he fled the country to the United States.

After all the talk on Russia and the "will-they won’t-they" debate as Pyeongchang 2018 draws ever closer, yesterday we heard from the man at the very heart of the scandal.

Former Moscow Laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov has urged sports authorities not to "sweep Russia’s transgressions under the rug" and called for strong sanctions for the doping regime he helped engineer.

A crowdfunding campaign has been set-up to provide financial support to Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow Laboratory who has since turned whistleblower and helped allege an institutional doping regime in Russia.

Russia's Sports Ministry is an "affected party" in the investigation into Grigory Rodchenkov and could sue the former head of the Moscow Laboratory, according to reports.

A documentary focusing on the Russian doping scandal has premiered at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City in Utah.

Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov has claimed that the Government has never been involved in a system to give athletes in the country banned drugs and help them avoid being caught but that they are prepared to cooperate fully with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following the publication yesterday of the McLaren Report. 

Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, the Moscow anti-doping laboratory's former director whose allegations led to Richard McLaren’s investigation into claims of state-sponsored Russian doping at their home Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games, has been accused of trying to induce athletes into taking unknown substances.