WADA provisionally suspends Russia's drug-testing laboratory in Moscow

A WADA statement said the suspension would take place immediately and prohibit the Moscow laboratory from carrying out any WADA-related anti-doping activities.

The World Anti-Doping Agency has provisionally suspended Russia’s drug-testing laboratory in Moscow.

In one of sport’s biggest ever scandals an independent commission set up by WADA revealed on Monday that 1,417 samples were deliberately destroyed on the orders of the director of Russia’s drug-testing laboratory.