Olympic Games: WADA maintains suspension

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will maintain the suspension of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency RUSADA according to information from ARD.

This was reported by the first, citing “several very, very serious sources from the World Anti-Doping Agency”. Accordingly, WADA will confirm the status of RUSADA as “non-compliant” on Wednesday and Thursday of next week (non-compliant).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its President Thomas Bach continue to come under pressure from the WADA decision.

The decision to participate in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang (9. till 25. The IOC’s Executive Committee will most likely fall at the beginning of December when the IOC will meet in Lausanne.

The WADA decision would also make it even less likely that the Russians would start at the following Paralympics in the same place. In addition, the IAAF, the world athletics federation, is likely to maintain the suspension against the Russian federation, which was declared in 2015.

Among other things, the responsible organizations in Russia are demanding public recognition of the McLaren report and access to further doping samples in the Moscow laboratory.

On Friday, WADA also announced that the in-house investigation team had acquired the so-called Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) of the Moscow laboratory.

According to WADA, the data collection contains all doping test data between January 2012 and August 2015. During this period thousands of doping cases are said to have been covered up in Russia.