WADA says its experts have no difficulties working in Moscow lab 5

Experts of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) experience no problems or difficulties during their work in the Moscow lab, which is still ongoing, a WADA spokesperson told TASS on Wednesday, TASS reports.

The WADA Compliance Review Committee met on January 14-15 to analyze information regarding Russia’s implementation of WADA’s requirements on the reinstatement. The results of those meetings remain unknown. A delegation of WADA experts remains in Moscow, where they work to retrieve data from the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory’s database of doping tests in 2011-2015. The effort was to be completed by the end of 2018.

"The work is still proceeding. When the three-person expert team traveled to Russia to retrieve the data from the Moscow Laboratory, no limit was put on to the duration of the mission," the spokesperson said. "It is taking longer than had been originally estimated but the team is facing no specific issues or difficulties in carrying out their task."