Britain accuses Russia of plotting to sabotage Tokyo Olympics

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Britain has accused Russia of a plot to sabotage the Tokyo Olympics in apparent retaliation for its athletes being banned from competing.

Russia was banned from competing in both the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang and the 2020 summer games in Tokyo for repeated doping breaches.

Analysts at the UK's National Cyber Security Centre concluded that the attacks were designed to sabotage the running of the games because the malware was designed to wipe data from and disable computers and networks."The GRU's actions against the Olympic and Paralympic Games are cynical and reckless," Raab said. "We condemn them in the strongest possible terms."

Raab's statement does not attribute blame directly to the Russian government but British officials have told the UK press that the attacks could not have occurred without the knowledge of the Russian state. Kovalev is accused of targeting the International Olympic Committee as well as unnamed Olympic athletes.

 

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