Russia Have Been Banned From 2020 Olympic Games & 2022 World Cup

The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia from global sporting events meaning they will not be eligible to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics or the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

The decision comes after WADA accused Moscow of falsifying data from an anti-doping laboratory.

“The full list of recommendations have been unanimously accepted,” said WADA spokesman James Fitzgerald, via the New York Post.

“WADA’s executive committee approved unanimously to assert a non-compliance on the Russian anti-doping agency for a period of four years.”

Russian athletes will still be allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics next year as neutrals. However, they will need to demonstrate that they were not part of any state-sponsored system of doping which is what Wada believes has happened in Russia.

They will also still be able to compete at Euro 2020, despite the ban with St Petersburg being one of the 12 host cities.

“They are going to have prove they had nothing to do with the non-compliance, (that) they were not involved in the doping schemes as described by the McLaren report, or they did not have their samples affected by the manipulation,” Fitzgerald said.