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Russia banned for four years to include 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup 11:00 - Dec 9 with 99 viewsBringBackTheRedRoom

Russia has been handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).

It means the Russia flag and anthem will not be allowed at events such as the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and football's 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

But athletes who can prove they are untainted by the doping scandal will be able to compete under a neutral flag.

Wada's executive committee made the unanimous decision in a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

It comes after Russia's Anti Doping Agency (Rusada) was declared non-compliant for manipulating laboratory data handed over to investigators in January 2019.

It had to hand over data to Wada as a condition of its controversial reinstatement in 2018 after a three-year suspension for its vast state-sponsored doping scandal.

Wada says Rusada has 21 days to appeal against the ban. If it does so, the appeal will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).

Wada vice-president Linda Helleland said the ban was "not enough".

"I wanted sanctions that can not be watered down," she said. "We owe it to the clean athletes to implement the sanctions as strongly as possible."

A total of 168 Russian athletes competed under a neutral flag at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after the country was banned following the 2014 Games, which it hosted in Sochi. Russian athletes won 33 medals in Sochi, 13 of which were gold.

Russia has been banned from competing as a nation in athletics since 2015.

Despite the ban, Russia will be able to compete at Euro 2020 - in which St Petersburg will be a host city - as European football's governing body Uefa is not defined as a 'major event organisation' with regards to rulings on anti-doping breaches.

More to follow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/50710598

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Russia banned for four years to include 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup on 11:11 - Dec 9 with 95 viewsspell_chekker

They've been at it for decades.

Controversy is still surrounding the ex Sky, now Ineos, cycling team.

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Russia banned for four years to include 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup on 15:44 - Dec 9 with 82 viewsspudgun

Only four years?
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Russia banned for four years to include 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup on 17:03 - Dec 9 with 79 viewsLala

Unanimous decision. Russia will probably say its another UK fit up.

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Russia banned for four years to include 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup on 17:52 - Dec 9 with 74 viewsBringBackTheRedRoom

Prestige, both at home and abroad, and if you're a dictatorship like Russia is under Putin, helps keep you in power. Been going on in one form or another in the Olympics since the 30's.

In fairness they aren't the only country at it, also a lot of other countries look at the way we fund elite sport and see that as finical doping.

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