“If RUSADA is removed, then the SBR will not have any legal opportunities to again be a full member of the IBU. As for the performances of athletes, this will be a general decision on all sports, as at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, in accordance with the recommendations of WADA, ”Maigurova quoted News.ru.

WADA may deprive RUSADA of compliance status for the loss of some positive doping tests from the database of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory.

Earlier, RUSADA Vice President Margarita Pakhnotskaya confirmed the loss of data from the Moscow laboratory database.