SEOUL (Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Thursday that Russia remains "non-compliant" with its Code, dealing a major blow to its hopes of being cleared to compete at February's Winter Olympics. The decision is likely to add more pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban Russian athletes from the 2018 Winter Games. "We consider it unfair and we have denied and categorically deny accusations that the use of doping had state support. Despite repeated calls for cooperation with international bodies to help rid Russia of doping, local authorities have never acknowledged any state involvement. "There was not and is no system of state support (for doping) in Russia," the Interfax news agency quoted Zhukov as saying on Thursday.

Source: The Star November 16, 2017 05:14 UTC