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December 09, 2019The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia from global sporting events, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, after accusing Moscow of falsifying data from an anti-doping laboratory. A Wada spokesman, whose executive committee met in Lausanne, reported that "the full list of recommendations was accepted unanimously".

For Russian sport it is the blackest day ever, with 4 years of disqualification. So, no Olympics (starting from the youth of January 2020 in Lausanne), no World Cup, no event to host in the Great Mother Russia for a specific period. Russia in the future would plan to host the 2032 Summer Olympics (Saint Petersburg, Kazan and Sochi which hosted the 2014 winter ones).

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) Executive follows what was suggested on November 25 by its own Independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC), which disqualifies Russian sport for four years. Reason? "The Russian anti-doping agency is at the center of an extremely serious case of non-compliance with the obligation to provide a true copy of the data (145 cases) of the Moscow laboratory", wrote the Audit Committee.

Among the points to be defined, from which date the disqualification should take place. A backdating to January 2019, when the violation of the laboratory was found, is among the hypotheses but it is not excluded that the sanction will start from 1 January 2020.

The International Olympic Committee has already announced in recent weeks that it "supports severe sanctions against all those responsible for manipulating the anti-doping data of the Moscow analytical laboratory". Russian doping, which had seen the involvement of the secret services (FSB), the ministry of sport, the Moscow anti-doping laboratory and other national bodies and international sports federations (for example that of athletics), involved over a thousand athletes both in sports summer and winter periods between 2012 and 2015.

Since November 2015, Russian athletics has been suspended and athletes who have shown they have never had doping problems can compete as neutral athletes. The Russian antoping agency Rusada has 21 days for a possible appeal to the international sports arbitration court of Lausanne. The Tas's decision would then be final.