Olympic Chief Ensures Russia At 2020 Games
November 28, 2019
4:28 pm
Russia’s Olympic Committee will do all it can to ensure Russian athletes take part in the 2020 Games, its chief said Thursday, as the country faces a four-year doping ban.
“We will do everything in our power to ensure our team is in Tokyo under the Russian flag,” news agency RIA Novosti quoted Stanislav Pozdnyakov as saying.
He said there were no “objective obstacles” to the “vast majority” of Russian athletes fully participating in the Olympics.
The compliance review committee at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday recommended a four-year sporting ban over falsified lab data it received from …
