 As of 22 December 2017, 43 Russian athletes had been sanctioned and 13 medals had been stripped.On 10 November 2017, the day after Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of stirring up problems for Russian athletes, WADA said in a news release that it had obtained an electronic file that contained "all testing data" from January 2012 to August 2015 – thousands of drug screenings run on Russian athletes.The database, which the Russian authorities were unwilling to share with antidoping investigators, arrived through a whistleblower.