The World Anti-Doping Agency reinstated Russia on Thursday despite a wave of protests, ending the nearly three-year suspension of the country’s drug-testing program because of a state-sponsored doping scheme. "This decision provides a clear timeline by which WADA must be given access to the former Moscow laboratory data and samples with a clear commitment by the (executive committee) that should this timeline not be met, it would support the (compliance review committee's) recommendation to reinstate non-compliance," Reedie said in a tweet. The two biggest roadblocks to RUSADA's reinstatement involved the country accepting findings from a report by investigator Richard McLaren that concluded the government had engineered the doping scandal to win medals at the Sochi Olympics.
The World Anti-Doping Agency votes to reinstate its affiliation with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, which had previously been suspended in November 2015.