The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has banned Russia from participating in major international sports tournaments, including the Olympics and World Championships, for a period of four years. The Tass reports it.
The WADA executive committee took the decision after concluding that Moscow tampered with laboratory data with false evidence and eliminating the files linked to positive doping tests that could help identify the doped.
The Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has also established that Russia, in the established period, will not be able to host or compete for the assignment of important international sports tournaments. The WADA Executive Committee has also established that Russian state officials, as well as officials of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), have been banned from participating in all major international sports tournaments, again for a period of time of four years.
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency has the right to appeal WADA’s ruling within 21 days. In case RUSADA decides against submitting an appeal, it can be also filed by heads of the Russian Olympic and Paralympic Committees as well as by heads of the international sports federations.
Svetlana Zhurova, first vice-president of the international commission of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament has declared, quoted by TASS: "On December 19 there will be a meeting of the Supervisory Board of RUSADA: it will decide whether the RUSADA accepts these recommendations or not. After we will appeal to the court of Lausanne ".
She has then affirmed. "I am 100% sure that Russia will resort to the CAS because we must defend our athletes".