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CAS ruling on landmark Russian doping case to be announced on Thursday
• 4 years agoThe ban, as it stands, means Russia would miss the re-arranged Tokyo Olympics 2020 next year as well as football's 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.
Russian doping blurs innocence and guilt, with Olympics caught in the middle
• 5 years agoRussian doping blurs innocence and guilt, with Olympics caught in the middle
After doping scandals, Russia warming up to controversial Therapeutic Use Exemptions
• 6 years agoAfter years of using hacked data to vilify Western athletes as cheats who bend the rules to take banned substances using TUEs, Russia is warming to a controversial part of the anti-doping system.
Russian doping scandal whistleblower's attorney says WADA will lose integrity if RUSADA is not banned
• 6 years agoWADA 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.
WADA completes audit of Russian Anti-Doping Agency, still to get access to old Moscow laboratory
• 6 years agoWADA director general Olivier Niggli described the audit as an important step along the way to RUSADA again becoming a fully trusted anti-doping partner.
Winter Paralympics 2018: IPC maintains suspension on Russia; will take call on nation's participation in event
• 7 years agoThe International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on Wednesday it was maintaining its suspension of the Russia's Paralympic Committee, but had yet to make a final decision on whether Russia can compete at the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea.
Winter Olympics 2018: Russians want to compete despite ban, says head of the athletes' commission
• 7 years agoThe IOC last week decided to ban Russia from the 2018 Games that run from February 9-25 over its state-sponsored doping programme.
Russia's absence from 2018 Winter Games would be great loss for Olympic movement, says Kremlin
• 7 years agoThe Kremlin on Tuesday said it would be a "great loss" for the Olympic movement if Russia were to be banned from the 2018 Winter Games over doping.
Yogeshwar Dutt won’t get an Olympic silver after IOC drops doping case against late Russian wrestler
Fpsports • 8 years agoYogeshwar Dutt's chance to upgrade his 2012 London Olympics bronze medal to silver were finished, after the IOC decided to drop its doping investigation against late Russian wrestler Besik Kudokov.
IOC hires Russian whistleblower Vitaly Stepanov as anti-doping consultant
• 8 years agoThe IOC has hired Russian doping whistleblower Vitaly Stepanov as a consultant and is helping his runner wife Yuliya in recognition of their efforts.