{"id":16553,"date":"2018-09-15T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T06:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomseymour66.com\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2018-09-15T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T06:04:50","slug":"committee-recommends-russias-anti-doping-agency-be-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomseymour66.com\/committee-recommends-russias-anti-doping-agency-be-reinstated\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee Recommends Russia’s Anti-Doping Agency Be Reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three years after suspending Russia’s anti-doping agency for enabling athletes to cheat in the Olympics, a committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency has recommended it be reinstated.<\/p>\n

WADA said in a statement <\/a>Friday that its independent compliance review committee made the recommendation. Members were satisfied after they “reviewed at length” a letter from the Russian Ministry of Sport. They also accepted a “new commitment” to provide WADA with access to data and urine samples in a Moscow laboratory through an independent expert.<\/p>\n

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency was suspended in 2015<\/a>, after an investigation found evidence of widespread, state-sponsored doping, and staff that had covered up for athletes. Russia’s Ministry of Sport and the Russian Federal Security Service were also implicated.<\/p>\n

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Friday’s statement has left international athletes puzzled and dismayed since it contradicts a panel recommendation<\/a> obtained by the BBC on Thursday. That document reflected a unanimous conclusion that criteria were not met to merit lifting the ban: the Russian Minister for Sport repeated a previous stance that his country’s Investigative Committee and courts determine who was involved in the scheme, and he did not address access to data and samples “at all.”<\/p>\n

WADA’s sudden shift <\/strong>follows athletes’ call, earlier this week, for the agency to stand strong against pressure. Athletes<\/a> of the U.K. Anti-Doping Athlete Commission wrote<\/a> in a letter, “To ignore these conditions, ignores the wishes of the athletes you are there to protect. Athletes will no longer have faith in the system.”<\/p>\n

Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said in a statement emailed to NPR, “Frankly it stinks to high heaven.” He called on WADA to release information that showed Russia’s compliance. <\/p>\n