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"We can say with full conviction: we have done all that depends on us for all Russian athletes to leave for Vancouver checked and "clean,"" Alexander Derevoyedov said.
"And I want to express hope and conviction that there will be no scandals with our Olympic athletes at the Games," he said at a press conference held at RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
Derevoyedov said Vancouver will have very strict doping control procedures. "I would like to believe all our athletes realize this," he said.
However Igor Vykhodets, a senior medical official at the Russian Medical Biological Agency, recently said doping-related cases among Russian athletes are still a possibility at the 2010 Winter Olympics, though their preliminary tests proved negative in Moscow.
Vykhodets in late January cited "the experience of previous Olympic Games," which, he said, "casts doubt that the athletes who left our country "clean" will continue behaving the same way [there]."
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