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A key World Anti-Doping Agency committee has recommended Russia face a four-year ban from global sports for violations of doping rules, a decision that could see Russian athletes and teams barred not only from next year’s Tokyo Olympics but from a series of other major competitions.
Under the recommendations, Russian athletes would compete at a second straight Olympic Games in neutral uniforms and collect any medals they win without the raising of the nation’s flag or the playing of its anthem.
The proposed punishments were included in a report produced by a WADA committee led by the British lawyer Jonathan Taylor.