{"id":1647860,"date":"2022-09-19T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1647860"},"modified":"2022-09-19T23:50:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T03:50:55","slug":"doping-wada-still-monitoring-russia-ahead-of-expiration-of-ban-banka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doping-wada-still-monitoring-russia-ahead-of-expiration-of-ban-banka\/","title":{"rendered":"Doping-WADA still monitoring Russia ahead of expiration of ban \u2013 Banka"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoping-wada-still-monitoring-russia-ahead-of-expiration-of-ban-banka%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1647860&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Nick Mulvenney<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013     The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are still monitoring testing operations in Russia ahead of the decision on whether to reinstate the country, despite complications caused by the  Ukraine war, president Witold Banka said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The existing two-year ban from international sport imposed by WADA on Russia for widespread, state-sponsored infringements of doping regulations expires at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Some Russians have continued to compete internationally as \u201cneutral\u201d athletes, including at the last two Olympic Games, but the isolation of the country after the start of the war further complicated the process of ensuring doping compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Banka, who reiterated WADA\u2019s condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d, said the organisation was still able to monitor the work of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).     <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an open line communication with RUSADA to make sure that the war is not a paradise for cheats,\u201d the Pole told reporters at WADA\u2019s Global Education Conference in Sydney. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe monitor them closely to see what they are doing \u2026 we didn\u2019t close this line of communication. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what will be in the next weeks, months, due to the war and the situation in Ukraine, and the Russian situation, is hard to predict. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to wait for the end of the year, we monitor what they are doing, let\u2019s see in the next weeks or months what happens in terms of (readmitting) them to the system.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p>RUSADA this week said it had completed its investigation into figure skater Kamila Valieva\u2019s positive test and would soon be organising hearings on the case. <\/p>\n<p>Valieva failed a doping test at the Russian national championships in December 2021 but the result was only made known on Feb. 8, a day after she had helped her team win a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the date when the hearing is so we have to wait until the decision and then WADA will decide what to do,\u201d Banka added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are monitoring this issue very closely and last month I expressed my will that they have to accelerate the process. Now that we know the hearing could be very soon. Let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skaters from United States and Japan, who finished second and third behind the Russian team in Beijing, have still not received their medals and their wait will be extended in the event that WADA appeals any RUSADA sanction handed to Valieva.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier at the conference, Sport Integrity Australia (SIA)  announced that supplements, which once caused up to a third of the country\u2019s doping cases, had been responsible for no positive tests for Australian athletes in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great achievement and clearly shows the power of education,\u201d Banka said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation is the single best way to prevent doping in sport. More and more it is becoming a key pillar of what we do as the World Anti-Doping Agency.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/doping-wada-still-monitoring-russia\/file-photo-a-woman-walks-into-the-head-offices-of\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8J04O-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8J04O-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013 The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are still monitoring testing operations in Russia ahead of the decision on whether to reinstate the country, despite complications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}