Shock among Russian athletes over Wada four-year global ban for doping

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The five-time Olympic champion says the ban is a ‘blow to the reputation of clean athletes’ but adds that ‘clearly there was a basis’ for the punishment

The five-times Olympic gold medallist Svetlana Romashina was in the pool when she received the news that Russia had been slapped with a four-year ban from major sporting events, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

 

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No pitty. Decades of cheating on the highest and biggest possible stage for an athletes.

Shock, really?

SHOCKED!! They KNOW what they were doing.

WADA should be abolished and PEDs should be legal. Full stop

They're so doped up it'll be a few days before they're aware of the ban.

Stupid games, stupid prizes.

Is your next article going to be about how the Mafia is shocked that they're wanted by the police?

Shock is excessive given this doping battle has been going on since the last Winter Olympics. Also, wtf cares?

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