“Our athletes will go to Tokyo and Beijing and act as an ROC team” says Russian Olympic Committee President Pozdnyakov


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By Neil Shefferd Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov has welcomed the news the organisation’s athletes will be able to compete under the name “ROC” at the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Guidelines were issued yesterday setting out the principles in relation to the implementation of sanctions imposed on the Russian Anti-Doping Agency by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The sanctions were initially issued for four years before being partially upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who reduced them to two, for the manipulation of the Moscow Laboratory data, and are in force until...