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A total of 203 Russians were sanctioned and 73 others indicted as a result of the so-called “Operation Lims”, WADA said. 182 cases are currently still being investigated.
According to WADA, the sanctions were based on the data from the laboratory information and management system (LIMS) successfully recovered by the agency.
A whistleblower provided WADA with copies of this data from 2012 to 2015 in October 2017. By comparing this data, the experts used forensic investigations to determine that the data previously provided by Moscow was “neither complete nor fully authentic.”
In December 2019, WADA banned Russia for four years for manipulating doping data from the Moscow laboratory.
Russia then filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Arbitration for Sports, which reduced the ban to two years. The ban expired on December 17, 2022. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) has not yet been re-registered. WADA had announced that after the ban had expired, it would check in three stages whether the Russian agency would get its license again.
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