The World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) has requested a high sports activities arbitration courtroom to make a ruling on a four-year sporting ban it imposed on Russia final month over allegations of doctored lab information.
WADA introduced on Thursday that it might ship the case to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland, the world’s highest sports activities courtroom, after Russia’s doping watchdog (RUSADA) disputed the four-year ban in late December.
WADA recordsdata official request with Court docket of Arbitration for Sport to resolve RUSADA dispute: https://t.co/UvDFZ0EGtz
— WADA (@wada_ama) January 9, 2020
WADA declared Russia non-compliant final month, alleging RUSADA had “manipulated” doping information from a Moscow laboratory offered to the company earlier this yr. The ensuing ban would prohibit Russia from internet hosting worldwide sporting occasions, together with the Olympics, and bar Russian athletes from competing below their nation’s flag.
Additionally on rt.com
Russia banned from main sporting occasions for four years
Moscow has repeatedly slammed the transfer as “politically biased” and rooted in “anti-Russian hysteria,” with President Vladimir Putin deeming it in violation of each “widespread sense” and “worldwide regulation.”
“An analogous determination relating to Russia’s participation below a impartial flag was made on the earlier Olympic Video games, now they wish to punish Russia once more for a similar violation. No present authorized system permits that,” Putin mentioned.
Additionally on rt.com
‘It’s only a technique to neutralize robust opponents from Russia’ – Putin on WADA ban
