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during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russians made a small mouse hole into a secure anti-doping lab and exchanged clean urine samples for those showing their athletes PED use. Over 100 dirty samples were smuggled out by a Russian agent pretending to be a sewer engineer.

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Fun Fact: during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russians made a small “mouse” hole into a secure anti-doping lab and exchanged “clean” urine samples for those showing their athletes’ PED use. Over 100 dirty samples were smuggled out by a Russian agent pretending to be a sewer engineer.

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