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WADA doping probe ‘could go on for months’

The Russian doping saga looks set to run for months, despite WADA bosses meeting next Tuesday to effectively decide Russia’s fate.

Last night, WADA’s taskforce revealed they had successfully extracted the raw data from the Moscow laboratory.

And next week, the agency’s executive committee will decide whether to reinstate the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, depending on the recommendation of the taskforce.

However, investigators have warned that going through the data and uncovering the extent of any potential wrongdoing will take up to three months.

Prior to the taskforce arriving in Russia, Jim Walden, the lawyer for former Moscow lab chief turned whistleblower Dr Grigory Rodchenkov, had warned of Russian officials falsifying evidence.

“We’ve got some intelligence which we’ve alerted law enforcement agencies to,” Walden told Standard Sport.

Walden has since raised those concerns with WADA and warned that Russia was “still cheating the world and the world seems to be a willing victim”.