WADA ban: Russia to miss Tokyo Olympics, Beijing Winter Olympics
The anti-doping agency banned Russia from all major sports events for four years
The anti-doping agency banned Russia from all major sports events for four years
The anti-doping agency banned Russia from all major sports events for four years
The anti-doping agency banned Russia from all major sports events for four years
World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday banned Russia from global sporting events including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after the country was punished for manipulating laboratory data.
"The full list of recommendations have been unanimously accepted,” A spokesperson for WADA, whose executive committee is meeting in Lausanne, told AFP.
According to a Reuters report, the executive committee found that Russia had planted fake evidence and deleted files linked to positive doping tests that could have helped identify drug cheats.
Full disclosure of data from the Moscow laboratory was a key condition of Russia's controversial reinstatement by WADA in September 2018. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) had been suspended for nearly three years previously over revelations of a vast state-supported doping program.
The doping scandal hit Russia in 2015 when a WADA report found evidence of mass doping in Russian athletics.
“Its doping woes have grown since, with many of its athletes sidelined from the past two Olympics and the country stripped of its flag altogether at last year's Pyeongchang Winter Games as punishment for state-sponsored doping cover-ups at the 2014 Sochi Games,” the Reuters said in its report.