 It was announced in November that the International Olympic Committee would further re-analyse stored samples from the 2012 Olympics, testing for all banned substances.This came after 48 adverse analytical findings were found in previous re-analysis of samples with 22 of them being Russian

On 14 December 2018, Hugo Lowell at "The i" newspaper reported from Moscow that officials at the Russian Ministry of Sport were still reluctant to cooperate fully with WADA over turning over the testing data from its anti-doping laboratory.WADA subsequently released a statement that said their Expert Team had flown to extract the data.