WADA successfully retrieves Moscow laboratory samples
The HinduThe World Anti-Doping Agency has successfully retrieved 2,262 samples from a Russian Anti-Doping Agency laboratory in Moscow. Allowing access to that data was a stipulation of WADA's Executive Committee reinstating RUSADA as compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code in September. The samples will now be taken for analysis at a laboratory outside of Russia and will be used to "strengthen cases against those who may have cheated and may exonerate athletes who have not committed an anti-doping rule violation," according to WADA director of intelligence and investigations Gunter Younger. READ | Neeraj Chopra likely to miss World championships "In removing the bottles, as a precaution we decided to take any and all samples that corresponded to data in the Laboratory Information Management System database that was even remotely anomalous, even where an anti-doping rule violation was not suspected,” Younger said in a statement.