Olympics-Russian athletes among most tested going into Tokyo Games

Russian athletes were among the most tested in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics, given the country's massive doping scandals which tarnished previous Games, the International Testing Agency said on Thursday. The ITA, set up in 2018, is in charge of the Games anti-doping programme for the first time and started out-of-competition testing when the Olympic village opened on July 13. Russian athletes are barred from competing at the Tokyo Olympics with their flag and anthem and instead are identified as "ROC" athletes -- which stands for Russian Olympic Committee -- following a series of doping scandal that shook world sport.

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