Brazil top anti-doping scientist has a stern yet ambitious warning for any Olympic athlete planning to cheat during this summer's Games: You probably won't get away with it.
"We'll have the best doping technology, so the clean athletes are assured they will have fair play," Professor Francisco Radler de Aquino Neto, head of the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory, told NBC News during a recent visit to his lab. "The ones that will maybe think of cheating the system, they should be aware that they will probably be caught."
Neto gave the tour just days before the latest series of bombshells rocked the already embattled efforts by anti-doping officials.
On Thursday, the former head of Russia's drug-testing laboratory told the New York Times about what he said was a widespread culture of doping by his country during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
In his explosive remarks, Grigory Rodchenkov went even further than a report in November by the World Anti-Doping Agency, known as WADA, which accused Russia of covering up a state-sponsored doping program.
Russia was provisionally suspended from track-and-field events following that publication, and it remains to be seen whether they will be allowed to compete at Rio.
(NBC)
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