Russia and WADA reach understanding about lab data - Kremlin

[January 09, 2019]  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Russia and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) had reached an understanding on the handover of data from the former Moscow anti-doping laboratory.

Russia was due to hand over the data to WADA by the end of 2018 in order for RUSADA, its national anti-doping agency, to keep its accreditation.

A WADA delegation is in Moscow to retrieve the laboratory data, having returned empty-handed last month.

(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh and Tom Balmforth; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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