US EditionRussian Doping Investigation Hits Milestone with over 300 Sanctions ...
WADA said 11 athletes received two sanctions each as investigators closed a probe built on 24 terabytes of Moscow laboratory data.
- On Thursday, World Anti-Doping Agency president Witold Banka announced that 'Operation LIMS' resulted in 302 sanctions against 291 Russian athletes, describing the probe as the "most successful investigation in anti-doping history."
- Investigators recovered 24 terabytes of data from the Moscow Laboratory in 2019, which followed WADA's controversial 2018 conditional reinstatement of the Russian anti-doping agency, RUSADA.
- Violations spanned 22 sports, with 107 cases in weightlifting and 93 in athletics, while sanctions were imposed by 23 different anti-doping organizations with four cases still pending.
- Eleven athletes received two separate penalties for distinct violations among the 291 total sanctioned, marking the conclusion of a probe that WADA confirmed has reshaped the anti-doping landscape.
- Defending the 2018 reinstatement, Banka stated it was "made precisely in order to get to the truth," adding that without that decision, investigators could not have obtained critical evidence from the Moscow Laboratory.
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The WADA president described the series of investigations, which resulted in the release of numerous athletes, as the most successful clean-up operation in the history of sports.
Wada announces over 300 sanctions for Russian athletes guilty of doping in groundbreaking case
The World Anti-Doping Agency has concluded its Operation LIMS investigation into Russia's state-sponsored doping scheme, announcing that 302 sanctions have been handed down to 291 Russian athletes
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The Independent (US)Russian athletes hit with over 300 sanctions after anti-doping probe
Wada has been investigating Russia’s state-backed doping programme in recent years
Doping-Russian doping investigation hits milestone with over 300 sanctions, says WADA
April 30 - The probe into Russia's state-backed doping programme passed a milestone of over 300 sanctions against athletes in what the World Anti-Doping Agency president described on Thursday as the \"most successful investigation in anti-doping history\". Read more at straitstimes.com.
An investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has identified 302 cases of doping involving Russian athletes in recent years.
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