mobanmarketTokyo: The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) on Monday gave Russia three weeks to explain “inconsistencies” in a cache of laboratory data handed over to investigators, raising the possibility of a fresh ban on the country in the build-up to the Tokyo Olympics.
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Russia stands to be declared non-compliant by Wada if it fails to explain why evidence of some positive tests handed over by a whistle-blower doesn’t show up in data provided by Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory in January.
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If Russia challenges an eventual suspension by Wada the case will go to the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), whose decision will be binding on sports bodies including the International Olympic Committee.
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“Forensic experts have looked at what we got from whistle-blowers, what we got from Russia and they noticed some inconsistencies,” Wada director general Olivier Niggli said after an executive committee meeting in Tokyo.
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“Then they studied the differences and this came to a situation where there are some questions that need to be asked and answered.”
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