Intro:

The 2014 Winter Olympic Games, which begin in the Russian city of Sochi on Friday, will see an increased number of anti-doping tests and will be the most rigourous in the history of the Winter Games.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Grigory Rodchenkov, Director of Sochi Anti-Doping Olympic Laboratory:
"During the Olympic Games, we will perform here 2,500 urine samples, and about 1,000 blood samples, using all methodologies and instrumentation of the modern day, we have thirty accredited methods here in the laboratory on board."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Grigory Rodchenkov, Director of Sochi Anti-Doping Olympic Laboratory:
"The laboratory is the final stage of the anti-doping procedures. We are analysing samples. The samples will be collected at sports venues. We have three clusters, one coastal, and two clusters in the mountains. Each Olympic venue has a special doping control station, where samples of blood and urine will be collected, then they will be consolidated in the Olympic Village, and brought to the laboratory mostly at midnight, to prepare everything for analysis early in the morning in the first early shift."