“We have no reason to doubt the statements of WADA that after the restoration of RUSADA, after all the sanctions in the past, after all this there were new manipulations with the old data in Russia. We see the current situation, as the report says. These manipulations happened in 2018 and at the very beginning of 2019, ”RIA Novosti quoted Bach as saying.
He also noted that the current situation is different from the one before the Rio Games.
On November 25, the WADA Compliance Committee recommended that the executive committee remove Russia from international competitions for four years, and also forbid it to hold international tournaments. In addition, it was recommended that Russian athletes be allowed to participate in tournaments only in neutral status.
This is due to the identification of intentional changes in the data of the Moscow laboratory, the transfer of which in its original form was one of the key points for restoring RUSADA compliance status with the World Anti-Doping Code.
The WADA Executive Committee meeting on this issue will be held on December 9.
Earlier it was reported that Russian experts rejected WADA's statement about manipulating the laboratory database.