Russia once again facing potential Olympic ban after World Anti-Doping Agency finds 'inconsistencies' in test results.
Russia is once again facing a potential ban from the Olympics, and all other major international competitions, after the World Anti-Doping Agency said it had found"inconsistencies" in test results provided by the country's anti-doping agency.
Jonathan Taylor, the chairman of WADA's compliance committee, told BBC Sport that it appeared the missing entries had been deleted. The announcement came as the International Association of Athletics Federations voted to keep Russia's track and field federation suspended, meaning the country will again miss the World Championships that are due to begin in Doha, Qatar, this week.
In response, WADA recommended that Russia be banned from the Olympics, which led to Russia’s track and field team being almost entirely excluded from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Last year, the International Olympic Committee forced Russia's team to compete as neutrals at the Winter Olympics in South Korea last year.
WADA's president, Craig Reedie, told Reuters on Monday that the discovery of inconsistencies in the Russian data was"disappointing but not an embarrassment," noting they had succeeded in obtaining the information from Russia. Russia's sports minister, Pavel Kolobkov, told state media that experts in"digital technology from both sides" were now already working on studying what the inconsistencies were.
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