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This means that Russia will also miss the Tokyo Olympics, which will be postponed until next year.
Russian athletes and teams will only be able to compete as neutral athletes at the Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, as well as the World Championships, including the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, if they are not involved. in doping or undermine positive tests.
The long-awaited ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) came after four months of secret meetings between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) last month.
Those arbitration hearings were held after WADA decided last year to classify RUSADA as non-compliant and issue a four-year ban on Russian athletes competing after the Russian agency was accused of falsifying doping tests. of Russian athletes.
Russia considered the ban to be legally unjustifiable. Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called the move “chronic anti-Russian hysteria.”
The story began in 2016, when the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenko, revealed that during the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian town of Sochi, athletes from the country participated in a state-funded doping program.
In July of that year, just two weeks before the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, WADA called for a ban on Russia from participating in those games.
However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided not to introduce a total ban and stated that it would be up to individual federations to decide whether they would allow Russian athletes to compete.
In 2017, the IOC banned the Russian Olympic Committee from participating in the 2018 Pyongyang Winter Games, but allowed “clean” Russian athletes to compete with a neutral flag. Following that decision, a total of 168 Russians participated in the Olympics.
Later, in September 2018, WADA lifted the ban on Russia, despite protests from many countries, although it had not been granted access to data from a Moscow lab involved in a doping scandal.
Russia finally provided WADA with data from that lab in January 2019.
However, after another unexpected turn in history in September of that year, the AMA ordered Moscow to explain the “discrepancies” in the data within three weeks.
Last December, the World Comptroller of Sports decided to ban Russian athletes from competing for four years due to falsified data, and Russia appealed the decision.
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