The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have issued Russia with a four-year ban from international sporting competition over doping failures.

This means the country will not be able to compete at the 2020 Olympics, the Winter Games and World Cup in 2022.

The World Anti-Doping Agency’s board made the announcement after they convened on Monday for a meeting around the International Olympic Committee’s headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.


At the meeting, it was revealed that Russia had tampered with laboratory data. The agency found out that Russia planted fake evidence and deleted files linked to positive doping tests that could have helped identify drug cheats.

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