With a key vote on Russia's participation in the upcoming 2020 Olympics set to take place at Monday's WADA Executive Committee meeting in Lausanne, nine of the 17 members of WADA's Athletes' Committee have issued statements in support of a total ban on Russian participation.

WADA revealed last month that Russia manipulated anti-doping testing data it was required to provide to WADA in an attempt to discredit whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov. The Compliance Review Committee concluded that this was "a very serious case of non-compliance with Moscow's requirement to provide authentic copies of data, with several aggravating features."

The statement signed by Athletes Committee members Becky Scott, Ben Sandford, Vicki Agger, Adam Pengilly, Chiel Warners, Greta Niemanas, Petr Koukal, Richard Schmidt, and Hayley Wickenheiser reads supports a complete ban on Russian participation in the Olympic and Paralympic Games as the only meaningful sanction."

Russia's state-sponsored doping cover-up dates back to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. There, doping tests for Russian athletes were tampered with to prevent positive tests and extended to the manipulation of test data at Moscow's anti-doping laboratory.

A 2016 independent investigation by Richard McLaren detailed hundreds of "missing positive" doping tests, 26 of which were from cycling. The report involved more than 1,000 athletes across all sports.

Following the scandal, Russian athletes, including three track athletes, were excluded from the 2016 Summer Games in Rio; at the 2018 Winter Games, athletes from Russia were only allowed to compete under a neutral flag.

WADA reinstated the Russian Anti-Doping Agency in September 2018, following backlash from athletes and anti-doping leaders.

The latest finding that Russia violated the conditions for reinstatement as code compliance has prompted members of the Athletes' Commission to call for a stronger response.

"We contend that the fraud, manipulation, and deception revealed today can only be encouraged and perpetuated with a lesser response," the statement said.

"Unless this critical abuse of integrity in sports is courageously and decisively confronted in defense of athletes and clean sports, this abuse will continue and the sport we love will remain tarnished.

"To date, the Russian doping problem has dominated three Olympic and Paralympic Games, with a fourth on the horizon. Russia's ongoing and deliberate acts of deception, fraud, and corruption ridicule not only those who play by the rules, but also those who make the rules and uphold them.

Niemanas wrote on Twitter, "The Russian government is betraying its own players with constant fraud and deception. Meaningful change must take place if the next generation is to have a chance at a healthy and secure future."

WADA Vice President Linda H. Hellerand, who objected to RUSADA's reinstatement, said on Twitter on Sunday, "It was a mistake to make RUSADA compliant before we had the data. Now we have the data. We are being manipulated and it is time for WADA and the IOC to impose the strongest sanctions possible."