The Russian flag and anthem will again be absent from the Olympic Games next summer after a ruling handed down by the World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday.
WADA's 12-member executive committee voted unanimously to implement a four-year international sports ban on Russia, a punishment that had been proposed by its compliance review committee last month after WADA investigators found that the country tampered with drug-testing data earlier this year.
Russia's anti-doping agency, RUSADA, will have three weeks to appeal WADA's decision and is expected to do so. The Court of Arbitration for Sport would be responsible for hearing an appeal.
