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Why the Russian state ‘weaponised’ stolen medical records of famous footballers

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Dissent

Jason Murdock reports:

On Tuesday 22 August, a hacking group released the alleged medical records of 25 football players who had been allowed to use banned medicines during the 2010 World Cup, part of an ongoing series of disclosures centred on stolen therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs).

The group claimed that the information was hijacked from Wada, the World Anti-Doping Agency, and framed the release by stressing that “more than 150 players were caught doping in 2015” and that by the next year, the number had “increased up to 200 athletes (sic)”.

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