The highest court in sports blasted Russia for engaging in “a cover up of the cover-up” in another desperate attempt to deny culpability for a state-sponsored doping scheme, while also justifying its decision to reduce the country’s punishments at the next two Olympics.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s 186-page decision for the case it ruled on last month between the Russians and the World Anti-Doping Agency. The decision is expected to be made public this week.
WADA had proposed a four-year ban for Russia, while allowing for athletes to compete as neutrals, for manipulating potentially inculpatory data it held in its Moscow lab for years before handing it over to investigators early in 2019.