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AP Interview: IOC could retest Sochi doping samples

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo, a Russian skating fan holds the country's national flag over the Olympic rings before the start of the men's 10,000-meter speedskating race at Adler Arena Skating Center during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. A whistleblower who uncovered Russia's doping scourge says most of the changes in the country's track and anti-doping programs are, in his words, "just fake," and not extensive enough to allow the team into this summer's Olympics. Vitaly Stepanov, who along with his wife, Yulia, blew the lid off systemic doping in Russia, tells The Associated Press that about 80 percent of coaches in Russian track used doping to prepare athletes for London's Olympics. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo, a Russian skating fan holds the country's national flag over the Olympic rings before the start of the men's 10,000-meter speedskating race at Adler Arena Skating Center during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. A whistleblower who uncovered Russia's doping scourge says most of the changes in the country's track and anti-doping programs are, in his words, "just fake," and not extensive enough to allow the team into this summer's Olympics. Vitaly Stepanov, who along with his wife, Yulia, blew the lid off systemic doping in Russia, tells The Associated Press that about 80 percent of coaches in Russian track used doping to prepare athletes for London's Olympics. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo, a Russian skating fan holds the country's national flag over the Olympic rings before the start of the men's 10,000-meter speedskating race at Adler Arena Skating Center during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. A whistleblower who uncovered Russia's doping scourge says most of the changes in the country's track and anti-doping programs are, in his words, "just fake," and not extensive enough to allow the team into this summer's Olympics. Vitaly Stepanov, who along with his wife, Yulia, blew the lid off systemic doping in Russia, tells The Associated Press that about 80 percent of coaches in Russian track used doping to prepare athletes for London's Olympics. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

By Associated Press 1 min read

LONDON (AP) – The IOC medical director says the Olympic body “would not hesitate” to retest drug samples from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi if there is evidence that doping controls were manipulated.

A Russian whistleblower told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that the former director of the Moscow anti-doping lab told him that four Russian gold medalists from the Sochi Olympics used steroids.

IOC medical chief Dr. Richard Budgett tells The Associated Press that the Olympic committee “will follow up any issues very clearly.”

He says international experts monitored the testing at the Sochi lab and “we made it as secure as we could.” But he notes the IOC has stored all the Sochi samples at the doping lab in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Budgett says “if there is evidence of manipulation, we would not hesitate to test.”