Translation by Liubov Baladzhaeva
The interview was recorded after CAS decision, but before IOC decision, when the team was still in Russia.
Rodionenko is not happy with how much power WADA currently has and he thinks that it should be reformed and limited in its power over athletes.
He thinks that the current doping scandal is a misunderstanding. There were some doping issues with Russia, but the reaction of the international sport community to these issues was exaggerated. Russia is not the only country that had issues with doping, there were athletes caught in USA, Kenya and many other countries. He thinks only the athletes who were caught doping should be punished, he opposes a blanket ban. Russian athletes were denied the presumption of innocence and that is not OK.
He says that the Russian lawyers and representatives who went to the CAS hearing weren�t really heard, no one cared what they had to say, everything was already decided before the hearing.
The doping scandal didn�t really affect the mood of the gymnastics team, because they aren�t involved and they didn�t really have any doping issues (he doesn�t talk about Kuksenkov).
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