Anti-Doping Agency Reinstated

The World Anti-Doping Agency declared Russia's scandal-ridden, drug-fighting operation back in business Thursday, a decision designed to bring a close to one of sports' most notorious doping scandals but one bitterly disputed by hundreds of athletes.

On a 9-2 vote, the executive committee took the advice of the agency's compliance review panel and declared RUSADA as having satisfied conditions of reinstatement that were gradually softened over the summer.

RUSADA's reinstatement, after nearly a threeyear suspension, clears the country to again bid for major international events— although soccer's World Cup was held there this summer. And it clears a major hurdle for Russia's track team to be declared compliant by that sport's international governing body (IAAF).