Is a big draw and one of the Worlds Largest air shows will be in dubai. Russias Sports Ministry has said it is not surprised by latest allegations that drug cheating is widespread in athletics but in a mixed message they completely rejected the worlds antidoping agencys conclusions and described the accusations that doping in russia were state sponsored as baseless and fictional and also insisted russias doping agencies are totally independent and says they collect 15,000 samples annually with disqualification of roughly 2 of the athletes tested and he is accused of double standards saying investigations are not commissioned in other countries and lets speak to rory challenge live in moscow and rory tell us more about what the russian Sports Ministry is saying because there is some confusion if its agreeing there is a problem here. Well, it does take a little bit of analysis to unpick the different comments that have come out of the Sports Ministry in the last few hours since the wider
Exit the world body. And germany mourns the loss of a former chancellor. Russia has been forced to close a laboratory after allegations of widespread drug cheating among itself athletes. Despite that the sports minister has vigorously denied the world antidopes agencys claims. He also insisted russias doping agencies are totally independent. He says they collect 15,000 samples annually, resulting in the disqualification of roughly 2 of athletes tested. He has accused the agency of double standards claiming similar investigations are not commissioned in other countries. Lets speak to lee wellings joining us from london. A strong sense of denial coming out of russia despite the laboratory closing down. Yeah, they had to close. There was no point in it being opened, because it was designed to link up with all of the other laboratories around the world, and the World Antidoping Agency runs all of them. And they suggested that it has to be closed down. It is of course, completely discredite