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WADA deals Russia Games blow
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The World Anti-Doping Agency said yesterday that Russia remains 鈥渘on-compliant鈥 with its code, dealing a major blow to its hopes of being cleared to compete at February鈥檚 Winter Olympics.
Russia鈥檚 anti-doping agency, RUSADA, has been suspended since a 2015 WADA report found evidence of state-sponsored doping and accused it of systematically violating anti-doping regulations.
WADA set out a roadmap for Russia to regain its status but at a meeting of its Foundation Board in Seoul yesterday decided that key criteria had not been met.
WADA President Craig Reedie said the Board approved the recommendation by the Independent Compliance Review Committee that RUSADA remains non-compliant as two key requirements for reinstatement had not been fulfilled.
鈥淗aving set a road map for compliance, there are two issues that have to be fulfilled and we can鈥檛 walk away from the commitments,鈥 Reedie said, adding that the RUSADA has made improvements.
Kuwait, Equatorial Guinea and Mauritius had also been found non-compliant.
The decision is likely to add more pressure on the International Olympic Committee to ban Russian athletes from the 2018 Winter Games.
The Kremlin slammed WADA鈥檚 decision as unfair, insisting Russia did not have a state-sponsored doping program.
鈥淲e do not agree with such a decision,鈥 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. 鈥淲e consider it unfair and we have denied and categorically deny accusations that the use of doping had state support. This is out of the question.鈥
Russia escaped a blanket ban at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro but remains barred from competing in international athletics events.
Yuri Ganus, director general of RUSADA, said the agency had done everything it could to be reinstated apart from two criteria that had not been met and were out of its control.
鈥淲e fulfilled all the criteria that depended on us,鈥 Ganus told a news conference in Moscow. 鈥淭here were two points that were beyond our prerogatives.鈥
He did not say what they were specifically but Russian authorities have so far refused to acknowledge the findings of the 2015 report of state-backed, systematic doping. Russia has also not released stored samples from its Moscow lab.
The IOC is set to decide on Russia鈥檚 participation at its executive board meeting on December 5-7.
鈥淭he decision of the IOC Executive Board ... will take all the circumstances, including all the measures to ensure a level-playing field at the Olympic Winter Games 2018, into consideration when it decides on the participation of the Russian athletes in Pyeongchang,鈥 an IOC spokesperson said.
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