LONDON — Hackers have published confidential medical data belonging to a handful of high-profile American athletes including Serena Williams and Simone Biles.WADA identified the hackers as a Russian group known as Fancy Bear, which published what are called therapeutic use exemptions, waivers that allow athletes to take banned substances on medical grounds.The data for the Americans, which also included Serena and Venus Williams and basketball player Elena Delle Donne, was posted online on Tuesday, with threats that more files would follow. Fancy Bear claimed on its website that the leaked documents prove the athletes had broken anti-doping rules.The International Olympic Committee and the US Anti-Doping Agency said the documents proved the opposite."In fact, in each of the situations, the athlete has done everything right in adhering to the global rules for obtaining permission to use a needed medication," USADA CEO Travis Tygart said in a statement. "The cyber-bullying of innocent...
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