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Reuters

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed on Wednesday that it had reinstated Russia after the remaining tests of the country’s athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics were all returned negative.
Russians competed as neutrals at the games after the IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in December, saying it had found evidence of an “unprecedented systematic manipulation” of the anti-doping system.
On Sunday, the IOC announced that Russia, which has repeatedly denied any state involvement in doping, would be automatically readmitted so long as there were no more doping violations.
WADA says Russia is still not compliant on anti-doping

“The final notification of all remaining test results from the Olympic Athlete from Russia (OAR) delegation has been received,” said the IOC in a statement on Wednesday. “The IOC can confirm that all the remaining results are negative.
“Therefore, as stated in the Executive Board decision of February 25, the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee is automatically lifted with immediate effect.”
Russia ‘hacked the Winter Olympics’, US officials claim
The decision had been announced earlier in comments by ROC president Alexander Zhukov on state television.
“The Russian Olympic Committee has had its rights fully restored,” he said. “It’s a decision of the utmost importance for us.”

A team of 168 Russians competed as part of a neutral ‘Olympic Athlete from Russia’ (OAR) team in Pyeongchang but two of them failed drug tests – medal-winning curler Alexander Krushelnitsky and bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva.
They had all been required to prove they were clean before the Games.
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Under the neutrality rules, the Russians were unable to wear national uniforms or have their anthem played at medal presentations, although the ice hockey team sang the national anthem on Sunday. 


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Russian doping scandal

Russia has been reinstated in the Olympic Games after doping ban, IOC confirms

In this file photo taken on February 13, 2010, The Russian delegation tours the Vancouver Winter Olympics stadium. File photo: AFP

FILE PHOTO: A view through a fence shows the Russian Olympic Committee headquarters in Moscow, Russia December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) poses for a picture with Alina Zagitova (L) and Evgenia Medvedeva, skaters and prizewinners of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, after an awarding ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor

Wada says Russia is still not compliant on anti-doping as IOC prepares to lift suspension

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has reported that Russia is still not complaint in doping testing as the IOC prepares to lift the country’s ban. Photo: AP

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Sir Craig Reedie gives a press conference ahead of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on February 8, 2018 in Pyeongchang. / AFP PHOTO / Florian CHOBLET

Players of the Olympic Athletes from Russia team sing the Russian anthem over the Olympic anthem during the medal ceremony after winning the men's ice hockey at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea on Feb. 25, 2018, despite Russia being officially banned by the International Olympic Committee over a doping scandal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

This photograph taken on February 7, 2018, shows the production of BEREG-KIT for drug and doping control, at Berlinger AG facility in Ganterschwil, which are scheduled to be used for the collection of urine samples at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said February 1, 2018, that it had confirmed that new generation drug-testing kits could be susceptible to tampering and recommended use of an older model at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. With the Winter Games due to open on February 9, the International Olympic Committee had asked the agency to look into the matter after a laboratory in Cologne reported the newer bottles could be opened after being frozen. The glass containers had been touted as the next generation of sample bottles since being released last year, part of the ongoing effort to avoid a repeat of the Russian doping scandal that dogged the 2014 Winter Olympics and still reverberates today. But WADA said the older BEREG-KIT 201

Fight against doping thrown into turmoil as 28 Russian athletes have Olympics bans lifted

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled to reinstate Alexander Legkov as gold medal winner of the men’s 50-kilometre cross-country skiing in Sochi, which he was earlier stripped of after doping claims. Photo: AP

In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, visitors drive past a restaurant now occupying the former building the Olympic anti-doping laboratory in Sochi, Russia. The building at the center of a doping scandal which rocked the 2014 Winter Olympics now hosts a bar and restaurant cashing in on its notoriety amid a tourism boom. (AP Photo/Artur Lebedev)

(FILES) This file photo taken on November 15, 2017 in Lausanne shows the entrance of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Dozens of Russian athletes banned by the International Olympic Committee for life over doping will seek to overturn their punishment from January 22, 2018 at the world's top sports court. Those mounting appeals are some of Russia's most celebrated Olympians, like cross-country skier Alexander Legkov, who won 50km gold at Sochi, and double bobsleigh champion Aleksandr Zubkov -- both of whom were later stripped of their titles. / AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI

Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre right, holds a jersey while posing for a photo with Russian national ice hockey team during a meeting with the Russian athletes who will take part in the upcoming 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. As punishment for what it deemed a doping scheme during the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has invited 169 Russians to compete under a neutral flag using the name "Olympic Athletes from Russia." (Grigory Dukor/Pool Photo via AP)

(FILES) This file photo taken on May 13, 2016 shows two-time gold medal winner at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Russia's bobsledder Alexander Zubkov speaks during a press conference in Moscow. Dozens of Russian athletes banned by the International Olympic Committee for life over doping will seek to overturn their punishment from January 22, 2018 at the world's top sports court. Those mounting appeals are some of Russia's most celebrated Olympians, like cross-country skier Alexander Legkov, who won 50km gold at Sochi, and double bobsleigh champion Aleksandr Zubkov -- both of whom were later stripped of their titles. / AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV

Vladimir Putin says US might be manipulating Russian doping whistle-blower with ‘substances’

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow. Photo: Kyodo

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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 24, 2014 shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) posing for a photo with Russian athletes, winners of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi. Vladimir Putin has staked Russia's prestige -- and his own reputation -- on sporting achievements but a possible ban from the Winter Olympics after claims of state-run doping threatens to wipe out any successes. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV