Russia’s Olympic ban over doping data heads to sport’s highest court Globe_Sports
WADA imposed a package of sanctions including banning Russia’s name and flag from the Olympics and world championship events in various sports over four years.There are also restrictions on Russia hosting some major events, and plans to vet Russian athletes who want to compete at major competitions, barring them if they’re implicated in doping cover-ups.
Next year’s Olympics in Tokyo will be the third consecutive edition of the games preceded by a legal battle over Russian doping issues. “We’re hoping for an honest and fair ruling in relation to those issues we disagree with,” ROC president Stanislav Pozdnyakov said earlier Thursday, before the case was confirmed, in comments to state news agency Tass.Russia handed over the Moscow lab’s doping data archive in January in return for having earlier sanctions lifted in 2018.WADA investigators found evidence that Russia was intensively editing the data in the weeks before the handover to remove signs of failed drug tests.
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