World Anti-Doping Agency president Sir Craig Reedie says he is “extremely disappointed” by allegations that Russia manipulated drug-test data after they had been reinstated by WADA in September last year. Russia will learn on Monday whether its teams and officials face a four-year ban from competing in and hosting international sporting events over manipulation of drug-testing data. The data provided in January 2019 was inconsistent with a copy of the database supplied to WADA by a whistleblower in 2017, in that positive findings present in 2017 were missing from the 2019 data. The I&I team found that some of the manipulation and deletion had occurred as recently as December 2018 and January 2019 – after reinstatement. Reedie said that may be an area that his successor as WADA president Witold Banka – who starts work on January 1, 2020 – may want to address.

Source: Express December 08, 2019 12:00 UTC