UPDATE: Nov. 18, 2015, 4:36 PM ET
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Leaders of the World Anti-Doping Agency have declared Russia’s anti-doping agency out of compliance.
The vote by the WADA foundation board Wednesday comes after an independent commission detailed a doping scandal in Russia’s track and anti-doping programs.
Without an operating anti-doping agency, Russia cannot host or bid for international events. The track team has already been provisionally suspended by the sport’s governing body, the IAAF, which is also under investigation for its role in the doping scandal.
Key figures in the anti-doping movement, including Olympic champions Edwin Moses and Beckie Scott, have called for banning the Russian track team from next year’s Olympics and for the probe in Russia to extend beyond track and field.
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