Biography
Richard McLaren is a Canadian lawyer and professor of law at Western University in Ontario, specialising in sports law.
He served on the independent panel commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency to investigate state-sponsored doping in Russian sport. His 2016 report detailed systematic subversion of drug-testing processes at the Sochi Olympics and led to sanctions against Russian athletes and officials.
McLaren appears as himself in the 2017 documentary Icarus, which examines the doping scandal and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
