In the wake of an Olympic ban, Russian athletics is facing yet another series of doping allegations. Middle distance runner Andrey Dmitriev became the latest whistleblower against his home country when he revealed secret video footage of banned coaches training athletes in Russian Athletics Federation facilities. 

"If everyone remains silent, as is usual in Russia, nothing will change," Dmitriev said.

In the ARD German television interview published on Monday, Dmitriev described the scene that he witnessed in secret footage recorded on January 12, which includes famed 800m coach Vladimir Kazarin with 400m runner Artem Denmukhametov in a training facility in Chelyabinsk. Kazarin was suspended for doping practices, and the Russian Athletics Federation instructed federations to stop working with him in April 2016. 

"I would not see him just letting it go. He just continues coaching," Dmitriev told ARD during the interview in Kazakhstan. 

Kazarin coached Mariya Savinova who won gold in the women's 800m final at the 2012 Olympic Games and was later stripped of her medal. 

Dmitriev's actions as a whistleblower follow fellow countrymen Yulia Stepanova and her husband Vitaly Stepanov, who secretly recorded her coaches and fellow runners while they described the team using performance enhancing drugs. Stepanova gave the video footage to ARD who produced the documentary Top-Secret Doping: How Russia Makes Its Winners. Savinova was secretly recorded when she admitted to using the banned steroid Oxandrolone. The numerous allegations made in the documentary prompted the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to conduct an investigation which revealed corruption and widespread doping practices within Russian athletics. As a result, Russia was banned from international competition in November 2015. 

"You say that we are changing, but these people are still there. This is just hypocrisy for me. It's lying. It's imitating changes, but there are none really," he said. 

Dmitriev revealed that there are more individuals still working at the professional level despite receiving bans for doping practices. Upon hearing the news, the IAAF is reportedly meeting with the Russian Athletics Federation in Moscow and will employ a special task force to investigate the allegations. 

"If it is indeed one of the coaches that has been provisionally suspended by the IAAF, then RusAF should have been in a position to enforce that suspension," IAAF chief executive Olivier Gers told ARD. "And therefore RusAF has not fulfilled the conditions for reinstatement."

Watch the entire interview with Dmitriev here.