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Committee Recommends Russia's Anti-Doping Agency Be Reinstated

The World Anti-Doping Agency's compliance review committee made the call, despite protests from international athletes that they "will no longer have faith in the system."

Three years after suspending Russia's anti-doping agency for enabling athletes to cheat in the Olympics, a committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency has recommended it be reinstated.

WADA said in a Friday that its independent compliance review committee made the recommendation. Members were satisfied after they "reviewed at length" a letter from the Russian Ministry of

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