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competed as the host nation at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in

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, held between 7–16 March 2014. Russia's 80 medals count is the highest medals ever recorded. The previous record was held by Austria with 70 medals in 1984. In December 2014, German public broadcaster ARD aired a documentary which made wide-ranging allegations that Russia organized a state-run doping program which supplied their athletes with

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. In November 2015, Russia's

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team was provisionally suspended by the

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. In May 2016, ''

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'' published allegations by the former director of Russia's anti-doping laboratory,

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, that a conspiracy of corrupt anti-doping officials, FSB intelligence agents, and compliant Russian athletes used banned substances to gain an unfair advantage during the Games. On 9 December 2016, Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren published the second part of his independent report. The investigation found that from 2011 to 2015, more than 1,000 Russian competitors in various sports (including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports) benefited from the cover-up. Emails indicate that they included five blind powerlifters, who may have been given drugs without their knowledge, and a fifteen-year-old.

Alpine skiing

Men Women

Snowboarding

Para-snowboarding is making its debut at the Winter Paralympics and it will be placed under the Alpine skiing program during the 2014 Games. ;Men

Biathlon

Men Women

Cross-country skiing

Men Women Relay

Ice sledge hockey

;Team roster Head coach: Sergey Samoylov Assistant coaches: Nikolay Sharshukov, Andrey Ivanov ;Summary ;Preliminary round ---- ---- ;Semifinal ;Final

Wheelchair curling

;Team ;Standings ;Results ;Draw 1 ''Saturday, March 8, 9:30'' ;Draw 2 ''Saturday, March 8, 15:30'' ;Draw 3 ''Saturday, March 9, 9:30'' ;Draw 5 ''Monday, March 10, 9:30'' ;Draw 6 ''Monday, March 10, 15:30'' ;Draw 7 ''Tuesday, March 11, 9:30'' ;Draw 9 ''Wednesday, March 12, 9:30'' ;Draw 10 ''Thursday, March 12, 15:30'' ;Draw 12 ''Thursday, March 13, 15:30'' ;Semifinal ''Saturday, March 15, 9:30'' ;Gold Medal Game ''Saturday, March 15, 15:30''

References

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Doping in Russia