 In total, 48 athletes from the 2012 Olympics were sanctioned as part of the programme, including 22 Russians and 61 from the 2008 Olympics including 19 Russians.Only one athlete was sanctioned from the 2010 Olympics and they were not Russian and no athletes failed tests from the 2006 Olympics.In an interview with the "New York Times", Rodchenkov reported that Yuri Nagornykh, the deputy minister of sport, had asked him to incriminate a Ukrainian athlete, Vita Semerenko, during a competition in Moscow leading up to the Olympics.