WADA submits request to have RUSADA dispute held in public

FILE PHOTO: WADA Director General, Olivier Niggli attends a news conference after World Anti-Doping Agency's extraordinary Executive Committee (ExCo) meeting that has banned Russian athletes from all major sporting events in the next four years, in Lausanne, Switzerland, December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

(Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday submitted a formal request to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to have the hearing to resolve its dispute with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency over non-compliance held in public.

WADA barred Russians from competing under their country's flag at major international events for four years as punishment for having tampered with laboratory data that could have identified drug cheats.