The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Thursday proclaimed a 'landmark' victory after a Court for Arbitration in Sport ruling that left Russia banned from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Games. CAS halved WADA's four-year ban but that still means Russian teams will be excluded from international competitions for two years for violating anti-doping rules. "WADA is pleased to have won this landmark case," said WADA President Witold Banka, adding that the verdict has "clearly upheld our findings that the Russian authorities brazenly and illegally manipulated the Moscow Laboratory data in an effort to cover up an institutionalised doping scheme." bur-fbr/gf/pb/nr/td