MONTREAL, Nov 26 — A key World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) panel has recommended Russia be barred from all sporting competition for four years after accusing Moscow of falsifying laboratory data handed over to investigators, the global anti-doping watchdog said yesterday. In a bombshell statement,...
In a bombshell statement, Wada’s Compliance Review Committee called for the sanctions, which would see Russia banned from next year’s Tokyo Olympics, to be approved at a meeting in Paris on December 9. — Reuters pic
The Wada committee has also recommended Russia be barred from staging or bidding for major international sporting events for a four-year period — potentially placing Saint Petersburg’s status as one of the venues for the Euro 2020 football tournament in jeopardy. The recommended four-year ban comes after Wada investigators examined data from Russia’s doping-tainted Moscow laboratory, which was handed over to Wada in January.
It said hundreds of adverse analytical findings had been removed while underlying raw data and PDF files had been deleted. The four-year sanction was one part of a range of punishments the CRC has recommended be approved by Wada’s ExCo next month.
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