WADA to reinstate Russia after doping suspension

IMAGE: Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Director General Yuri Ganus speaks during an interview at his office in Moscow. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

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

WADA said 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 Sept. 20 to review RUSADA’s efforts towards reinstatement.

Source: REUTERS
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