MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian sports minister Pavel Kolobkov said on Wednesday the country has done everything in its power to have its anti-doping agency (RUSADA) reinstated after it was suspended over allegations of state-sponsored doping. RUSADA has been suspended since a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report in 2015 found evidence of state-sponsored doping and accused it of enabling rather than catching drug cheats. "We really have done everything possible for RUSADA to retrieve its status," R-Sport news agency quoted Kolobkov as saying. WADA said last week that it had obtained a database that confirmed allegations of widespread state-sponsored doping in Russia made in the McLaren report. Russia escaped a blanket ban at the 2016 Rio Olympics but it remains barred from competing at international athletics events.

Source: The Star November 15, 2017 07:30 UTC