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MOSCOW -- Russias doping cover-up went far beyond the Olympics, according to a vast archive of emails released by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigator.Besides the 12 medal winners from the 2014 Winter Olympics whose samples were supposedly tampered with, messages show a system which covered up drug use by blind athletes and children as young as 15.In 2015, a year after the Olympics, Russias top doping scientist, Grigory Rodchenkov, complained that the scheme Richard McLaren termed the disappearing positive methodology had grown so large it was covering for doping -- and apparent abuse of power -- in disabled sports.Five blind athletes in powerlifting, a form of weightlifting, had tested positive for the banned steroid methandienone at the same training camp. Rodchenkov suspected unscrupulous coaches eager for medals were doping the athletes without their knowledge.Its a disgrace, Rodchenkov wrote to Alexei Velikodny of Russian states Sports Training Center. The coaches were picking on the blind (who) cant even see what people are giving them.A year earlier, the records show Velikodny issuing a save order for a 15-year-old competitor in track and field -- the instruction which meant a failed test was reported as negative.The young athlete -- one of the most promising juniors in Russia at the time -- was flagged up as a Crimean athlete in the emails, a distinction which may have helped him avoid a ban after testing positive for marijuana. It was May 2015, two months after Russias annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a failed test at one of the first competitions in Russia featuring Crimeans could have been embarrassing.McLarens report alleges more than 1,000 Russian athletes benefited from a cover-up scheme administered by government officials and Rodchenkov, the Moscow lab director who later fled Russia and turned his emails over to WADA. Following criticism that his intermediate report in July lacked evidence to back up its claims, McLarens full investigation is accompanied by a website containing thousands of pages of documents including years of emails, charts listing hundreds of suppressed tests and copious photographs of urine sample bottles with telltale scratches that McLaren says indicate they were tampered with.None of the writers of the emails responded to requests for comment. However, the Russian authorities have not disputed the content of the messages. Some of the authors have been suspended from their jobs, as was then-Deputy Sports Minister Yuri Nagornykh, who was placed on leave in the summer and resigned in October.The emails show a deeply corrupt system, with lab staff worried about their industrial-scale doping cover-up being exposed while they faced pressure from ambitious officials to save more top Russian athletes from doping scandals. Even Rodchenkov struggled to keep pace with the sheer scale of Russian doping.In early March 2014, shortly after the Sochi Olympics had finished with Russia at the top of the medals table, Rodchenkov remained under pressure.By his own admission, Rodchenkov had spent Russias home Winter Olympics swapping dirty samples in the dead of night in the temporary Olympic laboratory in Sochi, covering for up to 12 medal winners whose samples appear to have been tampered with, according to the McLaren report.Still, running the Sochi lab ahead of the Paralympics later in March, Rodchenkov was trying to hide his deceptions from the numerous foreign experts drafted in to ensure the lab ran smoothly. That didnt stop him from coming under state pressure to cover up more cases, emails leaked by Rodchenkov and published by McLaren show.I cant ignore OBVIOUSLY POSITIVE samples in front of everybody, he wrote to the Sports Training Centers Velikodny. That was in response to a message asking Rodchenkov to cover for nine track and field competitors shortly before the world indoor championships in Poland that month.Six athletes could be saved, but Rodchenkov insisted three particularly egregious cases couldnt be covered up. The athletes who gave them were now corpses who cant be brought back to life.Two months later Rodchenkov was again exasperated, telling Velikodny to get track and field together and give them a final warning. Theyve lost all fear. They should all just be banned already.Velikodnys response: I agree!The Russian track team would be banned by the end of the year, though not in the way Rodchenkov had envisioned. A World Anti-Doping Agency investigation into the team was already underway and would publish a damning report in November 2015, causing tracks governing body to suspend Russia from all international competition, eventually including the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.The email archive contains hundreds of pages of messages, mostly between Rodchenkov and Velikodny, with occasional cameos from junior lab staff, drug-testing officials and Nataliya Zhelanova, who was anti-doping adviser to Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko. Mentions of Mutko and his deputy Nagornykh are limited to initials, making their direct involvement difficult to prove.Russias cover-up was vast, with more than 1,000 athletes estimated to have been included. The sheer size was key to its success, giving the impression of an active, fully-functioning anti-doping system which in some years collected more samples than any other country, only to make positive tests vanish in the lab.That size also meant involving many people at various level of the state sports system, a liability which was devastatingly exposed when a husband-and-wife team of whistleblowers -- one an athlete on steroids, the other a disillusioned drug-test agency worker -- went public in 2014 with damning, yet only partial, revelations about the system. That, in turn, led to the WADA reports which exposed the labs deepest secrets.While covering for stars, officials routinely allowed obscure athletes to be banned in order to keep up the appearance of an efficient drug-testing system. Athletes well-being was almost never discussed. Despite repeated cases involving GW1516, a substance not considered fit for human consumption because of repeated cancer cases in animal testing, none of the emails contain any suggestions of discouraging its use.The archive has its flaws, though. Documents from the Sochi Olympics themselves are notable by their absence -- Rodchenkov has previously said he received instructions about the games in face-to-face meetings with Nagornykh, the deputy sports minister, and a handler from the FSB security service. Many documents are only available in the original Russian, or only in the English translation. Athletes names have been redacted but enough details of their competitive records remain that its possible to deduce many identities.The writers certainly knew the risk if their emails were ever made public.In November 2013, three months before the Olympics, Rodchenkov issued an order that Russian officials may wish he, too, had followed: Delete all messages urgently! 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Seamer Mirwais Ashraf has said that Afghanistans attack will have a key role to play in the upcoming three-ODI series in Bangladesh. The bowlers, led by offspinning allrounder Mohammad Nabi, who claimed 4 for 24, tuned up by dismissing BCB XI for 167 to take a low-scorer.Nabi was assisted by 18-year-old-legspinner Rashid Khan and left-arm seamer Fareed Ahmed, who picked up two wickets each. Fareeds new-ball partner Karim Janant, uncapped at international level, also chipped in with a wicket, helping the visitors defend 233.This was a great preparation for us after spending the last 20 days training in India, Ashraf said. We played positive cricket and gave Bangladesh a tough time. Afghanistans bowling is a key area. It has legspin, left-arm spin, offbreak bowlers and the pace attack. The upcoming matches will be tough.Fareed and Janat are young and talented seam bowlers. They came from the U19s, and have the ability to swing the ball both ways. They deserve to be in the national team.Ashraf himself contributed to the victory, his late cameo - an unbeaten 32 off 19 balls - first lifted the side past 200. He then bowled three tidy overs with his medium-pace.I just play for the team, what they require from me, he said. I try to play according to the condition. Variation is impportant since the pitch wasnt suiting pace bowling.ddddddddddddBCB XIs top-scorer Mosaddek Hossain, who was named in the Bangladesh squad on Thursday, said that Rashid would pose a threat in the ODIs.Rashid bowled accurately and had a lot of variations, he said. I think he was harder to play than the other legspinner. He bowls the googly really well and can stick to bowling at one spot.Mosaddek, who struck five fours and three sixes during his 76, however, drew confidence from reading the conditions well and hoped to justify his call-up to the national squad.Reading the wicket was more important to me today, he said. It was a tough wicket, kept low and there was turn. I think reading the wicket correctly was a big deal to me. A player has more self-belief when he has been selected to play for the country. I am in this mindset, that I have to prove why I am in the national team. I tried to bat till the end but unfortunately, I couldnt manage it.Batting against them [Afghanistan] today has given me some confidence. I dont think anything more will happen than what happened today. I think I will make use of any opportunity that comes in front of me. ' ' '