LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian gold medalists at the Tokyo Olympics are set to hear music by Tchaikovsky as the replacement for their national anthem, which has been banned as punishment for state-backed doping.
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A CAS ruling last year banned Russia’s flag, anthem and team name from the next two Olympics in the latest punishment for an extensive doping program and cover-ups, including at previous Olympic Games and testing laboratories in Moscow and Sochi.
The team will be known by the acronym “ROC,” for Russian Olympic Committee, in Tokyo and Beijing.
It will use the flag of the country’s Olympic committee rather than the national tricolor, though
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