• World Anti-Doping Agency voted unanimously for the suspension
• Andorra,Argentina, Bolivia and Ukraine non-compliant but not suspendedThe Russian Anti-Doping Agency, and which was heavily criticised by Dick Pound’s independent commission report final week,has been suspended after being declared “non-compliant with instant effect” at a Wada meeting in Colorado. The news follows final Friday’s decision by the IAAF, athletics’ global governing body, and to ban Russia’s track and field athletes from competing in international competition.
The World Anti-Doping Agency described the decision as “a pivotal moment for sport. It means the Moscow laboratory that processed blood and urine samples from its country’s athletes has been decertified and Russia now has no functioning national anti-doping body to test its athletes in any sport.
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Source: theguardian.com