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The CRC put forward the recommendation after
WADA's Intelligence and Investigations Committee found evidence
of manipulation of data retrieved from a tainted Moscow
laboratory in January.
A report along with the recommendation has been sent to the WADA
executive committee which will discuss the findings at a meeting
in Paris on Dec. 9.
If ruled non-compliant, Russia could be excluded from next
year's Tokyo Olympics.
As punishment for failing to respond to the doping crisis,
Russia was banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
although its athletes were allowed to compete as neutrals under
the Olympic flag.
Russia found itself again under the doping microscope when WADA
revealed in September historical data supplied by the country’s
anti-doping authority contained “inconsistencies” that resulted
in a decision to open a formal compliance procedure.
The non-compliant recommendation is the latest twist in the
long-running doping saga that stretches back to 2015 when RUSADA
was first suspended after a WADA-commissioned report outlined
evidence of systematic, state-backed doping in Russian
athletics.
Another report the following year documented more than 1,000
doping cases across dozens of sports, notably at the Winter
Olympics which Russia hosted in Sochi in 2014.
In a controversial decision last September, the WADA executive
committee voted to conditionally restore RUSADA’s accreditation
on the agreement that Russia would turn over data in a
discredited Moscow lab.
The Russian agency missed the December deadline but after
last-minute brinkmanship a WADA inspection team was finally
allowed to retrieve the data in January, recovering more than
2,200 samples.
That was expected to bring an end to the Russian doping affair,
only to see it get new life when evidence of tampering was
unearthed.
WADA said RUSADA and the Russian Ministry of Sport were given an
opportunity to explain the inconsistencies by answering a list
of detailed and technical questions, including follow-up
questions, raised by the Intelligence and Investigative
Committee and the forensic experts.
(Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto, Editing by Ed Osmond)
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