WADA seeking four-year ban for Russia

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The World Anti-Doping Agency's independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) has recommended a four-year ban on Russia after the country failed to comply with the requirements WADA had set for Russia to hand over all of the laboratory data from the Moscow laboratory.

The WADA Executive Committee is due to discuss the recommendation on December 9 at its meeting in Paris.

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