Russia under threat of not hosting the Olympics after WADA committee recommends bans over allegations of the manipulation of data retrieved from a tainted Moscow laboratory
A man walks at the World Anti-Doping Agency venue on the eve of the Fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport in Katowice, Poland, November 4, 2019.
The proposed punishments followed what WADA investigators described as "an extremely serious" case of non-compliance "with several aggravating features." The Russian Anti-Doping Agency had been suspended for nearly three years previously over revelations of a vast state-supported doping program.However, WADA said in its statement on Monday that the data handed over was beset with problems, describing it as "neither complete nor fully authentic."
WADA also said someone in the Moscow laboratory had planted fabricated messages in a key database – between November 2018 and January 2019 – in an attempt to support a theory that doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov had dripped false entries into the system as part of an extortion plot. That potentially could impact Saint Petersburg's staging of games at Euro 2020. The Russian city is due to host three group games and a quarter-final in the tournament.Individual Russian athletes may still compete in events such as the Olympics, but only if they are able to prove they are not implicated in the broader doping scandal.
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