Russia to Appeal against WADA’s 4-year Doping Ban

Guwahati, December 20, 2019:

Russia’s Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has decided to file a plea over the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) decision of the four-year doping injunction, banning the country from competing under its flag from all the major sporting events.

RUSADA’s supervisory board, on Thursday, said that it would appeal to the Switzerland Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) over WADA’s decision.

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It may be mentioned here that the ban also prohibits Russia from hosting international sports events and competitions including the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics that was scheduled to be held next summer in 2020 and 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

The athletes representing the country can only compete in the events under a neutral flag, if they are able to prove themselves of being untainted by the doping scandal.

On 9 December 2019, the WADA executive committee took a unanimous decision of barring the country from competing in major sports championships internationally for four years after a conclusion that Russia had doctored the laboratory data with fake evidence as well as deleting files associated to the positive doping tests that would have helped to identify drug cheats.

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According to a WADA report (2015), the evidence of mass doping was first found among the Russian athletes and since then the country has been embroiled in doping scandals.

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