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Harsh penalty!! WADA bans Russia after filing a Court of Arbitration for Sports requesting for a reduce of penalty
It is a long nightmare for Russian athletes as WADA banned them from participating in international sporting events. Suppose Russian athletes want to participate in the competition; in that case, they must compete under the neutral flag without flying the country’s flag or singing the national anthem in the stadium. This is due to the violation of the use of prohibited substances of the athlete. Russia then appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) to reduce the penalty.
This event happened in 2014 at the Olympic Games hosted by Russia in Sochi. The investigations have shown that the government is involved in enabling athletes to use banned substances in hopes of creating international results. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has imposed a ban on Russian athletes after a four-year investigation by an independent working group, which started in 2015. In 2018, WADA revealed that Russia deliberately hidden data from lab results that detected prohibited substances from athletes. This led to an investigation a year later, and athletes were banned for 4 years from such charges. Following by Russia appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
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On December 17, 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, has ordered a reduction in penalty for Russian athletes. The penalty for a charge of an organized violation of doping in sports is halved from four years to only two years ban from participation in any international sporting events.
The ban resulted in Russia’s unable to send athletes to compete on behalf of Russia in all international events until December 16, 2022. This is causing them to miss their chance at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, China, and Qatar’s 2022 World Cup. However, Russia is still allowed to participate in Euro 2020, which is postponed to the next year as the European Football Federation (UEFA) is not a major sporting event. According to the doping control regulations, although Russia is allowed to participate in small sport events, Russian athletes have to compete under the neutral flag, not their own country flag. The Court allows athletes to wear their country flag’s basic color, but not directly the Russian flag. Also, there is a prohibition on flying the Russian flag and their national anthem in sports stadiums. While the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) (or now as “World Athletics”) stated that the Federation will decide in March next year whether or not to have Russian athletes prove themselves to be unrelated to banned substances.
After received the Court’s decision, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, and Mikhail Bukhanov, interim head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, have issued a statement expressing satisfaction that the Court should not ban all the athletes as a whole. In any case, Pozdnyakov expressed his displeasure at the Court banning top Russian officials, including Vladimir Putin, from attending sports events, especially the Olympic Games. He said that this decision was more about political issues rather than sports.
