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Wednesday, Jun 11, 2025
The move, which paves the way for Russian athletes to make a full return to competition, came as a surprise. A day earlier, Britain's BBC published a letter from WADA's compliance committee recommending that the ban remain in place.
Athletes caught after August this year would be banned for two Olympic Games -- in Tokyo and Paris -- since they fall within the four-year sanction range.
The New Delhi-based laboratory had previously been suspended in August following a WADA site visit, prohibiting it from carrying out anti-doping activities, including all analyses of urine and blood samples.
The International Weightlifting Federation has dropped the doping charge against Indian weightlifter K Sanjita Chanu due to 'non-conformities' in the handling of her sample.
WADA acknowledged last week that the coronavirus pandemic had created challenges for drug-testers with countries closing borders, cancelling flights, enforcing mandatory quarantines or isolations and the shutdown of the sporting calendar.
There are now new questions that some athletes, whose bans prevented them from competing in the Tokyo Olympics, will have the opportunity to do so due to the change in dates.
The WADA committee's decision to punish Russia with a ban was unanimous.
WADA this month banned Russia for four years from major global events, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, over manipulated doping data.
RUSADA chief Ganus said Russia urgently needed new sports management and called on President Vladimir Putin to intervene.
The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) can still collect samples but will have to get them tested by a WADA-accredited laboratory outside India.
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