These are the first pictures from inside the 'shadow laboratory' used by Russia to cheat the world of sport by sabotaging samples of athletes using performance enhancing drugs. Packed with modern testing equipment, the lab was used to pervert the results of major competitions in a state-sponsored programme of cheating, it is claimed. It was named in a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report as being involved in a cover-up to destroy athletes' suspicious urine samples. Two labs were at the heart of Russia's 'calculated state-sponsored doping programme', the report claimed. The shadow lab and the official WADA-accredited Russian anti-doping lab, both in Moscow.The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report accused Russia of 'state-sponsored cheating programme'Said London 2012 'sabotaged' by Russian athletes on performance enhancing drugsReport named two Russian sample testing labs, one WADA-accredited and second 'shadow laboratory'Said 'shadow lab' screened and destroyed athletes' suspicious urine samplesOnly 'clean' tests supposed to be sent to official WADA-accredited anti-doping labWADA-accredited lab director Dr Grigory Rodchenkov has resigned in disgrace, admitting destroying 1,417 suspicious samples
It stated that pre-screened samples that were not positive were then sent to the official anti-doping _ lab.