DOPING: WADA warned ‘clean sport’ will end if ban on Russia is lifted

Employees work in Russia's national drug-testing laboratory in Moscow [Courtesy]

Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov said yesterday the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) risked a “catastrophe for clean sport” if it lifts a suspension against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency later this week.

Former Moscow laboratory chief Rodchenkov, who lifted the lid on Russia’s doping scandal in 2015, said Russia could only be readmitted if it acknowledged the government role in the scandal and provided full access to past test results.