The Russian Anti-Doping Agency remains non-compliant with the world anti-doping code, the World Anti-Doping Agency determined on Thursday.
The decision made by WADA’s foundation board at its meeting in Seoul comes less than three months before the start of the Pyeongchang Olympics and less than three weeks before the International Olympic Committee’s decision on sanctions for Russia.
WADA declared RUSADA non-compliant in November 2015 following the first of two investigations it commissioned into doping in Russia. It had set a roadmap for RUSADA to regain compliance, setting key criteria that included technical and personnel changes.
But RUSADA did not do enough to satisfy those criteria.