• ‘We will not be deterred from this mission,’ says Reedie
Russia has avoided further sanctions from the World Anti-Doping Agency despite missing by more than a fortnight a 31 December deadline to provide doping data from its Moscow laboratory.
However, Russia has been warned it faces being banned from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and prohibited from hosting international sporting events if there is any evidence that the lab data – which was retrieved last week – has been tampered with.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/22/russia-avoid-wada-sanctions-missing-data-deadline under the title “Russia avoids further Wada sanctions despite missing data deadline”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
