JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Kirsty Coventry, chair of the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission, said on Saturday that she supported the lifting of the ban on Russia’s anti-doping agency RUSADA despite widespread dismay over this week's WADA decision.
Coventry, newly appointed sports minister in her native Zimbabwe, said she saw it as a positive decision which would allow “for greater transparency through increased testing and access to their labs and data by December of this year”.
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