"Yes, we are considering a lawsuit," he said TASS on Friday.
Nagornykh noted that the Russian Sports Ministry can only guess what made Grigory Rodchenkov say what he said about Russian athletes.
"He may be dissatisfied with his current position or have unrealized creative ambitions. It may also be the season, which affects people. We can only guess about the reasons behind Rodchenkov’s statements," Nagornykh said.
In an interview with New York Times, published on Thursday, ex-head of Moscow anti-doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov claimed that the Russian sports authorities allegedly prepared a special doping program for national athletes in order to win most of the medals at home Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. The ex-doping official said some Russian Olympic gold medalists in Sochi took banned substances.
The Russian Olympic team finished the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi in the first place with the overall result of 33 won medals (13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze medals) surpassing its previous Winter Olympics record of 11 gold medals, set at the 1994 Winter Games in Norway’s Lillehammer.
According to the official, Russia never had any doping program in sports and recent allegations provided in US daily New York Times are groundless.
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