Russian athletes could face doping charges after Wada complete investigations
Wada had been focusing on 298 athletes under its ‘Operation LIMS’ probe after securing data from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory last year
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Your support makes all the difference.More Russian athletes could face new doping charges after the World Anti-Doping Agency completed further investigations.
Wada had been focusing on 298 athletes under its ‘Operation LIMS’ probe after securing data from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory last year.
Wada has said athletes came from sports governed by 27 different international federations but have not revealed which.
“The Russian doping crisis has dominated WADA’s time and resources over the past five years and the agency’s investigations team has been on the front line,” Wada president Witold Banka said in a statement.
“I would like to thank them for their diligence, professionalism and expertise, as well as the organisations that have now received case packages for the work they will do and their ongoing cooperation in protecting clean sport and for bringing as many cheats to justice as possible.”
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