Around 200 Russian athletes have been convicted by checking the doping files from the Moscow control laboratory.
This was announced by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Friday (05/19/2023). According to this, a total of 203 Russian athletes have now been sanctioned by 17 anti-doping organizations, a further 73 have been charged and 182 other cases are still being investigated.
The release of the information from the so-called Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) was a prerequisite for the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA to be admitted back to WADA in September 2018. She was first suspended in November 2015 after a report revealed systematic doping in Russia.
RUSADA not yet re-admitted
On December 9, 2019, WADA had again excluded RUSADA due to manipulation of data from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory and imposed a four-year ban on the country. The Court of Arbitration for Sport CAS subsequently halved the sentence to two years. The ban expired on December 17, 2022, and the RUSADA has not yet been re-registered.
The Russian doping scandal, which came to light in 2014, has occupied the sports world for years, and around 1,000 athletes are said to have been involved in the doping system.