WADA’s Probe Into 300 Russian Athletes Shows Manipulation In Half Of The Cases
Russian sports has been plagued by doping scandals and allegations of a cover-up.
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Russia Wants Doping Ban Overturned Because Of Coronavirus Crisis
Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin
Read moreOlympic Gold Medalists Among Four Russians Facing New Doping Charges
Andrei Silnov speaks at a news conference in Moscow in February 2017.
Read moreWorld Athletics Fines Russia $10M, Caps Neutral Russian Athletes at 10
World Athletics on Thursday fined Russia’s track and field federation $10 million for breaching anti-doping rules and capped at 10 the number of Russians allowed to compete as neutrals at the Tokyo Olympics. The system of allowing Russian athletes to take part as Authorized Neutral Athletes, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe warned, “will be suspended if $5 million of the $10
Read moreUse 1992 Yugoslavia Precedent for Russians in Tokyo – Historian
Clean Russian athletes should be allowed to compete in individual events at this year’s Tokyo Games under the banner of “Independent Olympic Participants,” historian Bill Mallon suggests. It is a designation used for athletes from Yugoslavia in 1992, and one that Mallon thinks offers a good road map of how to issue Russia a meaningful punishment without imposing a blanket ban. The 1992
Read moreWADA Vows ‘Utmost Vigor’ In Defense Against Russia Doping Appeal
WADA chief Craig Reedie defended his agency’s actions to penalize Russia in international sporting events.
Read moreRussia confirms it will appeal 4-year Olympic ban
MOSCOW — Russia has confirmed that it will appeal against its four-year Olympic ban for manipulating doping data. The Russian anti-doping agency, known as RUSADA, sent a formal letter Friday disagreeing with the sanctions imposed earlier this month by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The case is now heading to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Next year’s Olympics in Tokyo
Read moreNATO states call shots at WADA & use doping claims to contain Russia – Lavrov
The persecution of Russia by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is politically motivated as the body remains in the hands of NATO member states who won’t shy away from any means to harm Moscow, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov has said. The decisions at WADA are made by just over a dozen people, Lavrov pointed out, specifying that they represent “11
Read moreRussia Says Lab Data It Gave To World Anti-Doping Agency Was Not Tampered With
Yuri Ganus, head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency
Read morePutin Says WADA 4-Year Doping Ban Not Justified
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) four-year ban for Russia from international sporting competition over doping was not justified. He said bans should be handed out on an individual, not collective, basis. Speaking at an annual press conference, Putin said the decision was political and not fair. “If the vast majority of our athletes are clean,
Read moreRussia Banned From Olympics for Four Years Over Doping Scandal
Russia was banned from the Olympics and world championships in a range of sports for four years on Monday after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ruled to punish it for manipulating laboratory data, a WADA spokesman said. WADA’s executive committee took the decision after it concluded that Moscow had tampered with laboratory data by planting fake evidence and deleting files linked
Read moreRussia doping: Athletes wait in fear of fresh world ban
Russia has become the master of denial in recent years. From military incursions to hacking to assassinations, the Kremlin has sworn blind it’s not involved. But now the country’s athletes are waiting nervously, facing sweeping sanctions for another doping-linked scandal, and senior officials are keeping their silence. There is one, striking exception. Yuri Ganus has been warning for months that
Read moreRussia, Athletic Coaches Must Be Fired, Top Anti-Doping Official Says
Russian sport needs a “serious change” in its leadership starting with the firing of all its athletics coaches, the country’s top anti-doping official said Friday as it braces for a four-year Olympic ban for flouting anti-doping rules. Russian sport could enter four more years of gloom on Monday when the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s executive committee convenes in Lausanne to rule
Read moreRussia’s Sports Officials Cry Foul as WADA Eyes 4-Year Olympic Ban
Russian sports officials on Tuesday spoke out against a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee’s recommendations that the country be banned from the Olympics for four years, saying this was overly harsh and would hurt sport there. Russia could miss out on the Tokyo Olympics next summer and world championships in a wide range of sports. WADA’s independent Compliance Review Committee
Read moreWADA Committee Calls For 4-Year Russia Olympic Ban
Russia should be hit with a four-year Olympic ban and barred from all world championships for the manipulation of data retrieved from a tainted Moscow laboratory, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Monday. The recommendations were made by WADA’s independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) and will be put to the executive committee at meetings in Paris on Dec. 9. In
Read moreRussia Again Faces Olympic Ban After Non-Compliant Recommendation
Russia is again facing a possible Olympic ban after the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Compliance Review Committee (CRC) recommended on Friday that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be ruled non-compliant. The CRC put forward the recommendation after WADA’s Intelligence and Investigations Committee found evidence of manipulation of data retrieved from a tainted Moscow laboratory in January. A report along with the recommendation has
Read more‘Avalanche Of Lies’: Anti-Doping Body’s Probe Exposes Bad Blood In Russian Sports
Moscow has some explaining to do — and fast — regarding why positive drug-test results were missing from a massive database that is key to an investigation into a doping scandal that has shut Russia out of international sporting competitions. And, as the October 9 deadline to respond to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) approaches, officials tasked with cleaning up
Read moreRussian doping scandal: Russia faces ban from all major sports events – Wada
Russia could face a ban from all major sports events over “discrepancies” in a lab database, the World Anti-Doping Agency has warned. The country has been given three weeks to explain “inconsistencies” or risk being excluded from the Olympics and world championships. Russia also faces being barred from hosting major events. “There’s evidence this data has been deleted,” chairman of
Read moreRussian athletes might be excluded from participation in 2020 Olympics
WADA suspects Russia of manipulating information and faking doping test results over the past 18 months Russian athletes might be excluded from next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games because data from its Moscow anti-doping laboratory is suspected to have been tampered with before being submitted to the World Anti-Doping Agency, The Telegraph reported. WADA believes the information has been manipulated over
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