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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has provisionally suspended the Moscow Laboratory from carrying out its only remaining tests after an investigation found data from the facility had been manipulated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the World
Anti-Doping Agency decision to ban his country from competing under its own flag at the Olympic Games is against the Olympic Charter and will be challenged at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Thomas Bach has confirmed it is mandatory for the International
Olympic Committee to observe any sanctions against Russia handed down by the World Anti-Doping Agency at a crunch meeting next week.

World Anti-Doping Agency's Compliance Review Committee has recommended a four-year sanction against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, which could force athletes to compete neutrally with the country's flag set to be banned from international events.

Russia have been warned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) not to expect th...

A bill granting civil jurisdiction immunity to decisions made by the
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) should grant them more power to pursue
drug cheat...

Peter Ivanov has been forced to resign as President of the Russian
Athletics Federation after less than three months in the role because
of the Court of Arbitration for Sport decision in the country's
dispute with the World Anti-Doping Agency .

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency Supervisory Board has recommended the sacking of director general Yuri Ganus after a recent audit revealed a "number of significant irregularities in the financial and economic activities".

Russian Olympic Committee President Stanislav Pozdynakov has described the World Anti-Doping Agency as simultaneously acting as "investigator, prosecutor and publisher" against the Russian
Anti-Doping Agency.

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has sent formal notice to the World Anti-Doping Agency that it will appeal the range of sanctions imposed on the country for manipulating the Moscow Laboratory data.

Russia is handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events - including the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics - by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

An amendment to the World Anti-Doping Code to allow World Anti-Doping
Agency (WADA)-accredited laboratories to report Atypical Findings
(ATFs) for the...

A World Anti-Doping Agency team retrieves data from the Russian Anti-Doping Agency's laboratory in Moscow after a week of work.

A decision to lift the suspension of Russia's anti-doping agency (Rusada) is labelled "the greatest treachery" of clean athletes.

Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) advised its Executive Committee and Foundation Board that, at the end of October, WADA’s independent Intelligence and Investigations (I&I) Department acquired new intelligence concerning the former WADA-accredited Moscow Laboratory. Specifically, the I&I Department is in possession of an electronic file that the Department is confident is the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) database of the Moscow Laboratory, i.e. all testing data between January 2012 – August 2015.