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The World Anti-Doping Agency executive committee voted Monday to bar Russia from competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
After being banned from the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, Russia and its anti-doping agency were conditionally reinstated in September 2018, but Russian officials were caught this year manipulating data from their Moscow anti-doping laboratory and misleading WADA investigators, prompting a new chapter in a years-long doping scheme that continues to roil the international sports community.
As in the 2018 Games, Russians who have not been implicated in the country’s state-sponsored doping scheme will be allowed to compete as unaffiliated athletes. In PyeongChang, 168 Russians competed as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.”
After being banned from the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, Russia and its anti-doping agency were conditionally reinstated in September 2018, but Russian officials were caught this year manipulating data from their Moscow anti-doping laboratory and misleading WADA investigators, prompting a new chapter in a years-long doping scheme that continues to roil the international sports community.
As in the 2018 Games, Russians who have not been implicated in the country’s state-sponsored doping scheme will be allowed to compete as unaffiliated athletes. In PyeongChang, 168 Russians competed as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.”
