The NYT found out about the plans of WADA to suspend Russia from competition for four years

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The Committee for compliance with the world anti-doping Agency (WADA) recommended that the Executive Committee of the organization to remove Russia from international sporting events for four years. About it writes The New York Times, citing a report prepared by the Committee of the organization.

In addition, the Committee on correspondence recommended to prevent the Russian athletes for the Olympics 2020 in Tokyo under a neutral flag and anthem as it was at the previous winter Games 2018 in Pyeongchang.

Last week it became known that the Committee recommended to the WADA Executive Committee to deny the status of compliance of the Russian anti-doping Agency (RUSADA). The decision on the status of the Russian Agency will be taken at the meeting, which will take place on 9 December in Paris.

In September, WADA has launched the deprivation of RUSADA compliance. The reason for this decision was the suspicion of manipulating data of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, which was transferred from Russia to the experts of WADA at the beginning of the year.

Data transfer Moscow lab was one of the conditions of restoring the status of the journalist in September of last year. After receiving the information, the WADA experts have established that the base data is different from previously provided to the informant by the Agency.

After the start of the procedure of deprivation of RUSADA compliance status Director General of the organization Yuri Hanus said that the database of the Moscow lab have made more than thousands of changes that were systemic in nature.