China is sending 416 athletes to Rio, including 35 former Olympic champions. The 15 positive tests were from nine countries and two sports.
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Another 45 athletes have tested positive for forbidden substances in a second round of retests of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Friday.
Russian athletes won more than 70 track and field medals over the five Summer Games held since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the first in the post-Soviet era. The IAAF said it had received 136 applications from Russian athletes earlier this month.
The IAAF praised the decision, saying: “Today’s judgment has created a level playing field for athletes”.
“It is regrettable, of course, that the verdict was made right before the Olympics”, Peskov said, adding that time was “limited” to legally challenge the ruling, reports Efe.
Zhukov said the majority of global sporting federations supported Russian athletes competing in Rio. “It is our federation’s instinctive desire to include, not exclude”.
The IOC will take into account Thursday’s ruling by the CAS while arriving at a decision on the issue.
All athletes found to have infringed the anti-doping rules will be banned from competing at the Olympic Games Rio 2016.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) asked that the International Olympic Committee “consider its responsibilities”.
The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board will meet on Sunday in Lausanne, where the World Anti-Doping Agency’s recommendation to ban Russian Federation from Rio will be discussed.
[Photo by David J. Phillip/AP Images] The concrete proof of misdeeds by Russian Athletes, backed by the state, was revealed by the World Anti-Doping Agency this week, and thus the ban was upheld by the world’s leading dispute settler in sports.
The CAS said its panel unanimously “confirmed the validity” of the IAAF’s decision to ban Russian Federation from Rio and other worldwide competitions. The IOC has scheduled another executive board meeting on Sunday to consider the issue.
That would mark the deepest crisis in the Olympic movement since the U.S. and Soviet boycotts of the 1980s, and would be a grave blow to a nation that prides itself on its status as a sporting superpower. “The IOC decision on the participation of the Russian athletes will be taken in the coming days”.
“This is not about punishing some athletes for the actions of others”, said WADA president Craig Reedie.
“This will scare a lot of people or send a strong message that the sport is serious about cleaning up”. “You’re not welcome, ‘” Pound said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
The ban on the track and field athletes had been imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). I don’t make the rules, I don’t make the decisions. “What else do you need?”
The president of IAAF Sebastian Coe said, “While we are thankful that our rules and our power to uphold our rules and the anti-doping code have been supported, this is not a day for triumphant statements”. Among the countries represented in the letter were the United States, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Austria.
“Where we have systematic cheating, we also must have systematic punishment”, he said.
The Swiss-based body rejected an appeal against the hard-line IAAF stance by the Russian Olympic Committee and 68 individual athletes.
Stretching out his left arm to show the small adhesive bandage covering the mark left by his latest doping test on Thursday, Bolt decried the “really bad” doping problem in his sport. “I think this decision is biased and somewhat politicised and has no legal grounds”, Mutko told TASS.
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Leaders from 14 anti-doping agencies across the globe are urging the International Olympic Committee to ban the entire Russian team from the games. “They’ve always been frightened of strength”. “That’s why they’re banning us”. “I know I’m in good shape”.
