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A key meeting of a group of World Anti-Doping Agency investigators that could have led to significant new punishments for Russia was canceled Wednesday after Russia’s voluminous response overwhelmed investigators.
WADA, the global antidoping regulator, and Russia’s top antidoping official contend Russia manipulated a database of doping test results before turning it over to WADA as a condition for the lifting of an earlier doping ban. The Russian official, Yuri Ganus, said this month that “thousands” of drug test results were changed before the data was submitted to WADA for review.