WADA Executive Board recognized RUSADA as compliant with anti-doping code
During the meeting of the WADA Executive Committee, it was decided to recognize the Russian Anti-Doping Agency as compliant with the code of the World Anti-Doping Association.
According to the TASS, for the recognition of compliance of RUSADA with the code, 12 members of the executive committee from 15 expressed themselves. Two - against, one - abstained.
Craig Ridy (head of WADA) commented on what the decision of the executive committee of the association means:
The fact of the requirements to gain access to the Russian databases in this situation looks very strange for the reason mentioned above: all actions of the Moscow laboratory in recent years were carried out under the total control of WADA and, specifically, the British anti-doping agency, which was assigned to perform RUSADA functions at the time her suspension.
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