There is a strong chance that Russia might receive a new ban from the major sporting events on an international level which might also include the ban from entering the next Olympic and Paralympic Games on the irregularities found in the anti-doping data.
The executive committee for the World Anti-Doping Agency will have a meeting on 9th December for considering a formal recommendation from the CRC (Compliance Review Committee), where there is an expectation to call RUSADA for declaring the non-compliant over these lab tests anomalies.
The data which is in question for the impending ban on Russia is for the one collected from the period of 2012 to 2015 by WADA earlier this year in January.
If the recommendations of CRC are agreed upon by the ExCo and if Russia contests for the sanctions, the case might move on to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Should the CAS find Russia to be non-complaint and also agreeable to the sanction recommendations, then they might suffer from a complete ban to participate in the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games along with European Championship 2020 for which Russia has already qualified for.
As for the sanctions to be proposed by CRC, they are still not known at the moment but as per the International Standard for Code Compliance adopted by the Signatories back in April of 2018, it could include some really tough sanctions that Russia has never faced before.
RUSADA, the national anti-doping agency of Russia was declared as noncompliant back in November of 2015.
An inquiry made by a professor named Professor Richard McLaren back in 2016 led to findings of systematic and state-sponsored doping to occur in multiple sports from Russia. For that, Russian athletes did not get a ban in the 2016 Rio Olympics but they were still compelled to prove that they are clean.
Russia has already been banned from participating n the World Athletics Championships held in Doha this year along with being kept out from participating in the 2017 London event.
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