First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs of Russia, Olympic champion Svetlana Zhurova expressed her hope that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at the nearest executive committee session will restore the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) in rights, based on the documentary conclusions of the Compliance Committee, and not on anyone’s, or Russophobic sentiments.
On Friday, the WADA Compliance Committee reported that it recommended the WADA Executive Committee to restore RUSADA’s rights at a meeting on September 20.
“I hope that there will be no surprises, and the WADA executive committee will make a decision to reinstate RUSADA.” The WADA executive committee includes status people who can, of course, exert political pressure, but whether it is necessary to put such pressure on them now is a big question. whether someone will call now and say: take another decision on Russia, proceeding from the current conjuncture and Russophobic sentiments, “Zhurova told RIA Novosti.
“People in the executive committee of WADA thoroughly study the documents that are prepared by the committee on compliance, this committee is preparing documents for the adoption of a decision. All scandals around doping and Russia were reduced to a minimum,” – added the agency representative.
According to Zhurova, serious work was done to reinstate Rusada.
“Reinstating RUSADA required certain measures to correct the mistakes that we had, serious work was done, the legislation was rigidly amended until criminal liability for violation of anti-doping rules, which is not present in many countries, and now RUSADA will be able to fully and scale conduct doping control in the country. And at the same time, there are hopes for the early reinstate of the Paralympic Committee of Russia and the All-Russian Athletics Federation, “Zhurova said.