Russia banned from Olympics for four years over doping scandal - TASS

Russia banned from Olympics for four years over doping scandal - TASS
FILE PHOTO: Logo of Russia's Olympic Committee is seen on its building in Moscow, Russia November 23, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Copyright MAXIM SHEMETOV(Reuters)
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia was banned from the Olympics and world championships in a range of sports on Monday after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ruled to punish it for manipulating laboratory data, the TASS news agency reported.

WADA's executive committee took the decision after it concluded that Moscow had tampered with laboratory data by planting fake evidence and deleting files linked to positive doping tests that could have helped identify drug cheats.

(Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Andrey Kuzmin; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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