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Seven members of the athletes' commission in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have come out against the reinstatement of Russia's Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).
"It should not be possible to commit the biggest doping scandal of the 21st century, then be reinstated without completing the conditions set," a statement said Tuesday.
WADA's compliance review committee (CRC) recommended last Friday that the RUSADA should be reinstated. WADA's executive committee is to meet on Thursday to decide whether to accept the recommendation.
The Russian Athletics Federation (RUSAF) was banned alongside RUSADA nearly three years ago for its part in a state-supported doping programme. Both organisations had agreed to a series of conditions as part of their pathway to reintegration.
The CRC said that it was satisfied that Russia had fulfilled"two outstanding criteria" required for reinstatement.
Russia had"acknowledged the issues identified" and that it"accepted that the new commitment to provide access to the data and samples in the Moscow laboratory to WADA via an independent expert would be sufficient to justify reinstatement," it said.
However, seven of the 17 members of the athletes'commission said Russia had not yet accepted the McLaren report, which said more than 1,000 Russian athletes had been helped by state-sponsored doping or allowed access to thousands of samples in the Moscow laboratory.
"It is for RUSADA to be compliant, not for WADA to change its conditions to make RUSADA compliant," a statement said.
On Monday, the umbrella group of national anti-doping agencies also criticized RUSADA's possible reinstatement.
"Any reasonable person would conclude that Russia has not yet fulfilled its obligations to the global sporting community," the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations said in a statement.
"WADA must make its decisions based on consistent application of principles and not simply out of expedience pandering to the will of a powerful nation."
Russia's athletics ban dates from 2015 and the fall-out from the Sochi Winter Olympics of the previous year. WADA investigator Richard McLaren spoke of a sophisticated programme to help Russian athletes top the medal table.
