WADA recommends reinstatement of Russia

The World Anti-Doping Agency could reinstate the Russian anti-doping agency, suspended since 2015 ove alleged state-backed doping, as soon as September.

The World Anti-Doping Agency says its compliance review committee (CRC) has recommended the reinstatement of Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, which has been suspended since 2015 over alleged state-backed doping.

WADA said on Friday the committee had reviewed a letter from the Russian sports ministry it said had "sufficiently acknowledged the issues identified in Russia," thus fulfilling the first of two remaining criteria for its reinstatement.

"For the second outstanding criterion, the CRC accepted that the new commitment to provide access to the data and samples in the Moscow laboratory to WADA via an independent expert would be sufficient to justify reinstatement..." WADA added.

WADA's executive committee will meet on September 20 to review RUSADA's efforts towards reinstatement.


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