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Tokyo Olympics 2020: WADA calls for public adjudication as Court of Arbitration for Sport prepares to hear Russia's doping ban case
•The CAS panel of three judges will have power to enforce WADA-recommended sanctions including a ban on Russia’s team name, flag and anthem at Olympic Games and world championships
Russia blames doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov for altering laboratory data meant for handover to WADA
•Russia is blaming the World Anti-Doping Agency's star witness for modifying key laboratory data. His lawyer says that's nonsense.
Russia doping scandal: WADA's refusal to issue blanket ban on Russian athletes makes 'fairness' a thing of the past
•What's clear to anyone who has followed even a second of the Russia doping saga, now in its fifth year and showing no signs of ending, is that “fair” went out the window a while ago.
Russian doping blurs innocence and guilt, with Olympics caught in the middle
•Russian doping blurs innocence and guilt, with Olympics caught in the middle
Inside Russia's failed doping cover-up and its efforts to discredit whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov
•In the years since a whistleblower implicated Russia in one of the most sophisticated doping schemes in sports history, the country has made repeated efforts to discredit him
Tokyo Olympics 2020: WADA recommends four-year ban for Russian athletes; to compete under neutral status
•The WADA compliance review committee proposed a four-year ban on Russia hosting major events but stopped short of asking for the blanket ban on Russian athletes that is among the possible sanctions for the most egregious violations.
Former Olympic high-jump champion Ivan Ukhov one of five athletes to file appeals against WADA issued bans
•Russian track federation spokeswoman Natalia Yukhareva said that Ukhov and world champion high jumper Svetlana Shkolina filed appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, along with Lyukman Adams, Yekaterina Galitskaya and Yulia Kondakova
Russian doping scandal whistleblower's attorney says WADA will lose integrity if RUSADA is not banned
•WADA gave the Russians a conditional release from the ban in September but one of the requirements was full access to data at the Moscow lab but that did not happen.
Swimmer Michael Phelps slams WADA for lifting ban from Russia's anti-drugs body, calls for leadership change to counter doping
•Olympic legend Michael Phelps called for new leadership in the fight against drugs in sport on Friday after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) controversially reinstated Russia's tainted anti-drugs body.
Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov warns WADA of 'catastrophe for clean sport' if Russia ban is eased off
•WADA revealed last week that its compliance committee had recommended lifting its three-year suspension after receiving assurances from Russia's Ministry of Sport.