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Russia's reputation, Olympic status for doping goes on trial next week at CAS
•The three-judge panel has been asked by the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban Russia's name, flag and anthem from the Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, plus four years of world championships.

Russia Anti Doping Agency head Yury Ganus fired after criticizing country's sports leadership
•Ganus, 56, was forced from his role after the Russian Olympic Committee in July published an audit of RUSADA that exposed alleged financial violations.

Russia Athletic Federation completes payment of doping fine issued by World Athletics
•World Athletics said last month it would go further by expelling Russia unless it made an outstanding payment of $6.3 million in fines and costs for anti-doping breaches by 15 August.

'I want to live': Forced into hiding, Russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov still lives in fear
•Exposing Russia’s state-sponsorship doping scheme forced Grigory Rodchenkov into hiding in the United States five years ago.

World Athletics freezes two Russia panels after track federation misses deadline to pay fine
•Russia's track federation, known as RusAF, owes a $5 million fine and another $1.31 million in costs for various doping-related work and legal wrangles.

Russian sports minister Oleg Matytsin says CAS should put doping scandal on 'backburner' in light of COVID-19 pandemic
•The World Anti-Doping Agency barred Russia from the Olympics for four years after ruling last year that doping data from a Moscow laboratory had been manipulated. The Court of Arbitration for Sport is to rule on whether the ban is valid but hearings have been delayed because of the health crisis.

WADA bars Russia for four years. But what does the ban mean? More importantly, what does it not?
•The decision to bar Russia from international sports for four years raises more questions than it answers. We try to decode what the ban means, and what it doesn't.

Will Russia be thrown out of Tokyo Olympics 2020? A primer ahead of WADA executive committee meeting on Monday
•Will Russia be thrown out of the Olympics on Monday? A primer

Tokyo Olympics 2020: WADA Athletes Committee calls for complete ban on Russians ahead of executive committee meeting
•The athlete committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency is calling for Russia to be completely banned from the Olympics after the country “made a mockery not only those who play by the rules, but those who create and safeguard them.”

WADA compliance arm to rule on Russia doping data next month
•Russia handed over thousands of files and samples from its Moscow anti-doping laboratory in January, a key condition for its reinstatement by WADA in 2018.



