Grigory Rodchenkov told the Mail on Sunday that a former head of medicine at Russian football’s most successful club of the past decade, Zenit St Petersburg, was an archetypal ‘witch doctor’ of football, with ‘very good practical experience’ of doping sportspeople.
The doctor in question, Sergey Pukhov, was the club physician at Zenit from 2006 to 2017, when he resigned for reasons never declared. Zenit have won five of the past 10 Russian Premier League titles, finishing second twice and third twice in that time.
Pukhov had experience as an Olympic doctor, and was the favoured physician of the notorious race-walking coach, Victor Chegin, dozens of whose athletes have been banned for using illegal drugs, especially blood-booster EPO.
Grigory Rodchenkov has made fresh claims about doping, this time in football regarding Zenit
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