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How Is Russian Compliance With Anti-Doping Rules Coming Along?

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Thomas M. Hunt
Board of Contributors

Mar 4, 2019 | 12:00 GMT

Yuri Ganus, head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, holds a news conference in Moscow on Jan. 22, 2019.

Russia is seeking to fully rejoin world sports after a series of doping scandals. The head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency is Yuri Ganus, shown here during a Jan. 22 news conference in Moscow.

(VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Highlights

  • In the year since a doping scandal led to it being banned from the Winter Olympics, Russia has worked to regain its eligibility within the international sports system.
  • Russia has seen its Olympic committee reinstated and has cleared other obstacles, but the decisions by sports governing bodies have faced international criticism.
  • Suspicions remain that Russia's doping program involved the highest reaches of the Kremlin, prompting doubts that the Russian rehabilitation effort will last.

Nearly a year has passed since Geopolitics of Sports last covered the ongoing Russian doping scandal. A great deal has happened since Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics. A few key developments, including the reinstatement of the Russian Olympic Committee and steps taken by Russia to comply with anti-doping regulations, merit our renewed attention....

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