Matthieu Reeb, secretary general of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), arrives at a press conference to announce the court's decision regarding dozens of Russian athletes banned for doping, in Pyeongchang on February 1, 2018. The Court of Arbitration for Sport on February 1 lifted life bans on 28 of the 43 Russians accused of doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. / AFP PHOTO / François-Xavier MARIT (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT/AFP/Getty Images)
The International Olympic Committee has lifted the doping ban on Russia, restoring the country’s rights in full, Russian officials said on Wednesday.
“The rights of the Russian Olympic Committee have been fully restored,” said the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov.
Zhukov said Russia received a letter from the IOC Wednesday which confirms that no other Olympic athletes from Russia tested positive for doping, following two positive Russian drug tests at this month’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
“All of the doping tests that were conducted on our athletes in the last days of the Olympics were negative,” Zhukov said.
The IOC decided in a meeting Sunday that in such an event the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee would be lifted.
Russia was banned in December from taking part in the 2018 Olympics following revelations of widespread doping, though 168 athletes were deemed “clean” and were cleared to go to Pyeongchang to compete under the Olympic flag.
However, two Russians, curler Alexander Krushelnitsky and bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeyeva, were kicked out of the Olympics after their doping tests were revealed to be positive, with Krushelnitsky being stripped of his bronze medal.
Russia’s Olympic ban followed the uncovering of a doping conspiracy where tainted urine samples were switched with clean ones.
The government has denied any state involvement in the plot but a top sports official Vitaly Mutko, currently a deputy prime minister, was suspended by the IOC for life.
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