Russia banned from 2020 Tokyo Olympics
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Source: Washington Post
The World Anti-Doping Agency executive committee voted Monday to bar Russia from competing at the next two Olympic Games. The decision means Russia will have no formal presence at next year’s Summer Games or the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. Similar to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Russians who have not been implicated in the country’s state-sponsored doping scheme will be allowed to compete in Tokyo as unaffiliated athletes. In PyeongChang, 168 Russians competed as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.”
After being banned from the 2018 Games, the country and its Russian Anti-Doping Agency were conditionally reinstated in September 2018, but Russian officials were caught earlier this year manipulating data from its Moscow anti-doping laboratory and misleading WADA investigators, prompting a new chapter in a years-long doping scheme that continues to roil the international sports community.
WADA’s executive committee met Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland, where it considered recommendations from WADA’s Compliance Review Committee. The committee voted to give the Russian Anti-Doping Agency formal notice of its noncompliance with the World Anti-Doping Code, and the Russian agency has 21 days to respond. If it disagrees with the WADA ruling, it can protest the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which would have final say.
Russian Olympic officials had been bracing themselves for Monday’s decision. Yuri Ganus, the head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, told the Associated Press last week the sanctions “were to be expected, and they’re justified.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/12/09/russia-banned-tokyo-olympics/
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By Washington Post Staff
Dec. 9, 2019 at 5:34 a.m. EST
The World Anti-Doping Agency executive committee voted Monday to bar Russia from competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
After being banned from the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, Russia and its anti-doping agency were conditionally reinstated in September 2018, but Russian officials were caught this year manipulating data from their Moscow anti-doping laboratory and misleading WADA investigators, prompting a new chapter in a years-long doping scheme that continues to roil the international sports community.
As in the 2018 Games, Russians who have not been implicated in the country’s state-sponsored doping scheme will be allowed to compete as unaffiliated athletes. In PyeongChang, 168 Russians competed as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.”
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2019/12/09/russia-banned-from-next-two-olympics-for-doping-violations/
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On top of that, this horrible scandal has been continuing for YEARS.
At the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Russia was not allowed to participate as a country, but individual athletes were, as the article says. Some of these athletes did quite well (for example, in figure skating), and the crowds in the stands rooting for them were very loud.
I'm not sure what lesson is learned when individual athletes are allowed to participate, given Russia's immense abuses in sports.
Here's our favorite murderous dictator with those athletes from the 2018 Winter Olympics. A total ban would remove photo ops like this:
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Good decision to ban the cheating doped up Russian Athletes
Apparently this practice goes way back (at least to the '40s during WW2) but the process was more formally done starting in 1992 - https://timeline.com/no-home-no-team-no-flag-a-history-stateless-athletes-at-the-olympics-ff4966f8f9ea
ETA - they apparently play the Olympics anthem for the them as their unaffiliated anthem.
I remember during some of the recent opening/closing ceremonies when they had the "parade" of countries and they would have the small group of "independent" (unaffiliated) athletes all marching together with that Olympics flag.
Since Russia had been banned from the Winter Olympics last year, their athletes competed under that "independent" category and marched under the Olympics flag (and they really swelled the ranks of the independents) 
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