Drugfree Sport NZ joins fresh call for Russia to banned from Winter OlympicsGETTY IMAGES Pyeongchang, South Korea, will host the 2018 Winter Olympics. Drugfree Sport NZ is one of 17 global anti-doping agencies calling for Russia to be banned from next year's Winter Olympics in South Korea. "This is not the first time this group of anti-doping agencies fuels the hysteria over the Russian team's participation in Pyeongchang," he said. The agencies' leaders said they were committed to providing "consistent criteria" to enable individual Russian athletes to compete as neutrals, as long as they had been subject to "robust anti-doping protocols". Russia escaped a blanket ban at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro although it was, and remains, barred from competing in athletics.

Source: Stuff September 14, 2017 21:33 UTC