MONTREAL - A World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) panel has
recommended that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared
non-compliant, according to a statement released Friday.
WADA said its Compliance Review Committee (CRC) had recommended that
RUSADA be suspended again when the global anti-doping watchdog's
Executive Committee meets in Paris on December 9.
If the WADA leadership adopts the recommendation, Russia faces fresh
sanctions, including a likely ban from next year's Olympics in Tokyo.
Jonathan Taylor, the head of the compliance review committee, said in
an interview last week with Germany's ARD television that Russia
could no longer count on the indulgence and willingness of WADA to
compromise.
The British lawyer indicated that the Moscow data from 2012 to 2015
provided to WADA experts at the beginning of the year were "not
authentic and incomplete" and that "some changes were made."
"The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that, today, WADA sent
a recommendation of its independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC)
to WADA's Executive Committee (ExCo) regarding the ongoing compliance
procedure brought against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency
(RUSADA)," WADA said in a statement.
The confidential document "recommends that notice be sent to RUSADA
asserting non-compliance with a critical requirement of the
International Standard for Code Compliance by Signatories (ISCCS);
proposing serious consequences in line with the principles set out in
the ISCCS; and, proposing reinstatement conditions," according to the
statement.