Some Russian athletes were denied places on the country’s Olympic team of 335 athletes for the Tokyo Games because they are under suspicion of doping.
TOKYO —
“It was not particularly complicated,” WADA director general Olivier Niggli told The Associated Press. “There was not many but there was a handful, I would say, of athletes who would still potentially be at the Games which we would qualify as strong cases.Fallout from the database case led to a ban on Russia’s national identity at the Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
Gold medalists from Russia will not hear their national anthem on the podium but instead a familiar piece of piano music composed by Tchaikovsky. A Russian Olympic flag will be raised, not the national flag of white, blue and red horizontal stripes. WADA investigators found the database was manipulated while in the hands of Russian law enforcement. Information was altered and deleted, and false emails tried to incriminate lab officials who became whistleblowers.
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