The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that WADA will not automatically restore the alleged full compliance status of the Russian National Agency (RUSADA) following the sanction imposed on it two years ago until December 17, 2022. .
| WADA does not automatically accept RUSADA back (Image: Getty Images) |
The foundation, which is funded in part by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and signatory governments, presented its position in a statement, stating that WADA wants to assess whether RUSADA has met all of the conditions set out to restore its rights.
These criteria were captured in a decision by the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in December 2020, when it agreed to suspend a Russian convicted doping offender, but halved the four-year prison sentence imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The ruling denied Russia the right to host major international competitions and denied Russian athletes the opportunity to compete under their country’s flag and have their national anthem played in their honor at international sporting events. According to the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Russians were unable to represent their country in the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo or the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, just as earlier this year the Russian national team was denied access to the Qatari football championship, which ends on Sunday, due to Penalties for the World Championships.
The history includes the suspension of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory and RUSADA at the end of 2015, after the World Anti-Doping Agency published the investigation report of its competent committee in November of that year, which found that doping is widespread in Russia. A year later, an independent commission of inquiry led by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren and commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency concluded that doping in Russia was being used systematically with state support. According to the report, between 2011 and 2015, Russian doping control bodies tampered with the test samples of about a thousand athletes in thirty sports and concealed positive test results.
On December 17, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will begin a comprehensive review to assess whether RUSADA has met all of the conditions set out in the CAS decision. “As long as These conditions are not met, the case of non-compliance by RUSADA.”
(MTI)
