Two-year sports ban for Russia

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 18 Dec 2020 by Alex Teddy
On December 17 the Court for Arbitration in Sport announced that Russia would be prohibited from taking part in international sports. This two-year ban will prevent Russia from participating in the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021 and the Winter Olympics in 2022.The CAS had initially decided on a 4-year ban. This was reduced to a 2-year ban. The US lambasted the decision as pathetic. The Americans emphasized that doping in Russia was state orchestrated.The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) wanted a 4 year ban. Russia has been caught systematically doping its athletes over several years.Some campaigners think that allowing Russia back to world sports after only 2 years will be an insult to all the clean athletes. The ban expires on 16 December 2022. It will prevent Russia from taking part in the Soccer World Cup. Russia was unlikely to qualify anyway. Russian athletes who can prove they are clean can participate in competitions but only as neutrals. This has happened to the Russian athletics team before. Nevertheless the Russian government counted individual athletes' successes as success for Russia. Hardliners in WADA say short-term bans or allowing Russia to compete as individuals is clearly too soft since Russian never changed its ways.The CAS found that Russia illegally falsified anti-doping samples on a huge scale. The CAS considered the decision at a four-day hearing in secret in November 2020. The decision was only revealed on December 18.In 2019 WADA proclaimed Russia non-compliant. Putin said that the ruling was due to politics and went against the Olympic Charter. Moscow, as usual, said the ruling was due to anti-Russian bigotry. In 2016 Grigory Rodchenkov f...

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