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The Compliance Review Committee (CRC) of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recommended that Russia be sanctioned without participating for four years in international events , which would include its absence from the Olympic and World Games, for the manipulation of analysis data Anti-doping of a laboratory in Moscow, the agency confirmed on Monday.

The recommendations announced on Monday, included in a 26-page report , will be presented on December 9 in Paris at the Executive Committee, which will make the final decision . In that letter, the independent committee determines that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) breached the anti-doping rules, and that data from 2012 to 2015 from the Moscow laboratory provided to the experts of the AMA at the beginning of the year were not "authentic" and they were "incomplete", and they were made "some changes".

Among the main sanctions proposed, all for a period of four years, is that Russia cannot participate as a country in the Summer and Paralympic Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 and winter in Beijing 2022, in the Youth Olympic Games, in World Cups or in "any other event organized by an organization of major events", which could include Euro 2020.

In addition, it cannot host any major event or choose to host it in the future during that time - as for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games - and that if it has already been designated, said event must be resigned to another country.

Although the flag of Russia could not be raised in any of these appointments, Russian athletes could participate, under the Olympic flag as neutral, in international events if they are able to demonstrate "that they are not involved in any way" in doping practices , that is, if their names do not appear in the McLaren Report , in possible manipulations of tests or in positive results in analysis.

In addition, the CRC requires that the RUSADA pay all AMA costs since January 2019 as a result of the investigation of irregularities in the Moscow laboratory and that a fine of 10% of its 2019 income or 100,000 be imposed dollars - 90,800 euros -, the amount resulting from a smaller amount.

However, he acknowledges that RUSADA is working "productively in cooperation with other anti-doping organizations, including in investigations within Russia", so it does not recommend "any special supervision or control over anti-doping activities" of the agency during those four years .

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