Russians suspected of doping stopped from going to Olympics

The World Anti-Doping Agency said it intervened to stop several Russians from competing based on evidence from the Moscow testing laboratory that was shut down in 2015.

Some Russian athletes were denied places on the country’s Olympic team of 335 athletes for the Tokyo Games because they are under suspicion of doping. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday it intervened to stop several Russians from competing based on evidence from the Moscow testing laboratory that was shut down in 2015. The database and samples from the long-sealed lab were finally given in 2019 to WADA, which prepared and shared about 300 potential cases for governing bodies of Olympic sports. “It was not particularly complicated,” WADA director general Olivier Niggli told The Associated Press.