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London: The World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to lift a ban on Russia's anti-doping agency is a triumph for money over clean sport, WADA's former director general said on Friday. David Howman strongly criticised WADA president Craig Reedie for caving in to pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and international federations eager to stage events in Russia again. The decision was taken on Thursday at a meeting of WADA's executive committee in Victoria, capital of the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles."I am a little disappointed, to say the least," said Howman, who ran WADA from 2003 to 2016 and is now chairman of the Athletics Integrity Unit."This looks like they have taken the decision to deviate from a carefully put-together roadmap for entirely pragmatic reasons," he told Britain's Press Association. (AFP)
