Global News: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) held a news conference to discuss
the decision made on Monday to ban Russia from competing in any
international sporting events for the next four years, a period that
includes the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 World Cup in
Qatar, for tampering with doping-related laboratory data.
The decision by WADA is a serious blow to Russia‘s already tarnished
sporting reputation and a disappointment for Russian sportsmen and
sportswomen, who will not now be able to perform at the Olympics under
their own flag and national anthem.
WADA’s executive committee in Switzerland acted after concluding that
Moscow had tampered with laboratory data by planting fake evidence and
deleting files linked to positive doping tests that could have helped
identify drug cheats.
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