Kremlin says claims Putin ordered Russian doping prog

The Kremlin today dismissed claims by Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov that President Vladimir Putin ordered a state-sponsored doping programme, calling them baseless "slander."

"This is yet more slander which doesn't have a single piece of evidence to support it," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists following allegations made by Rodchenkov to German public broadcaster ARD.