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NEW YORK - A man that US prosecutors charged with supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes at the Tokyo Olympics pleaded guilty on Monday (May 8), a spokesman for the US Attorney's Office Southern District of New York said. Eric Lira, 43, last year became the first individual charged under the Rodchenkov Act, a federal law that allows criminal charges against.
was living in when they made that decision. meanwhile ladies doubles champion viktoria azarenka said it was hard to explain to her young son leo why she was not able to address him in a victory speech while the world number seven ons jabeur said it was sad and unacceptable the players were not allowed to speak when all finalists in the singles and the men s doubles addressed the crowd after their matches. now in a case that s been described as a watershed moment, an american could face up to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to supplying performance enhancing drugs to olympic athletes. eric lira is the first defendant to be charged under a new us law introduced following russia s state backed olympic doping scandals. our sports news correspondent alex capstick explains. well, the rodchenkov act is named after grigory rodchenkov. he was the insider who uncovered the whistle blower in the huge doping scandal in russia. he helped uncover that, and it now allows the fbi to go
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man that U.S. prosecutors charged with supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes at the Tokyo Olympics pleaded guilty o.