The British side sent an open letter to the leadership of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which requests not to restore Russia's rights. A report on this appeared on the website of the Sports Integrity Initiative. On assurances, the UK Anti-Doping Commission believes that their Russian colleagues from RUSADA did not comply with the requirements that were put forward to him, so "clean" athletes do not want her return, seeing in her as a "catastrophe". "Athletes insist that WADA adhere to the road map and do not turn off the road, do not let the net sport fail," wrote the authors of the message. The statement of the British was denied by the State Duma deputy speaker Igor Lebedev, who said that it was nothing more than an attempt to put pressure on the executive committee to make a political decision. "The chances of recovery are high. All the requirements that WADA put forward to our agency, were met both at the legislative level and at the level of the founders of the agency, "he said, the" Championship ".

According to him, WADA does not have any additional claims to the Russians. "There is only one problem - political," he added.. A new decision on the status of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency will be adopted on September 20 in the Seychelles, where the meeting of the WADA Executive Committee will take place. RUSADA was recognized as not in compliance with the code in 2015, after which some sportsmen-Russians were disqualified and deprived of the 2014 Olympics, they were not allowed to fight with Russia in the Games of 2018 in Pyeongchang.