After not affiliating the country's state-sponsored doping scheme, the players will compete as unaffiliated athletes in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In PyeongChang, 168 Russians competed as Olympic Athletes from Russia. After being banned from the 2018 Games, Russia initiated the Russian Anti-Doping Agency but the officials were caught earlier this year manipulating data from its Moscow anti-doping laboratory and misleading WADA investigators. Meanwhile, Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, has said the Olympic governing body must abide by WADA's decision.