To provide a level playing field for all clean athletes at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the IOC has put special measures in place such as targeted pre-tests of identified sports and countries.
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That is likely before the International Olympic Committee executive board discusses Sunday whether to impose a blanket ban on all Russian teams from the Olympics next month.
On Thursday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed an appeal by 68 Russian track athletes of the ban imposed by track and field’s world governing body, known as the IAAF, following allegations of systematic and state-sponsored doping.
The athletes are being informed, after which proceedings against them can begin.
Speaking about the situation around the application of the Russian Federation for participation in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the President said that Russia should work with the International Olympic Committee disciplinary commission as closely as possible.
WADA has recommended that the International Olympic Committee ban all Russian athletes from competing in this year’s Games, but no decision on that recommendation has yet been reached.
The IAAF did rule that athletes processed outside of the Russian system could be allowed to compete – with Florida based long jumper Darya Klishina named so far.
The IOC is facing worldwide pressure to act tough on Russian Federation and ban the entire team over bombshell revelations of a state-run doping system that has seen the country cheat its way to victory.
The IPC announced on Friday it would seek to ban Russian Federation from the Rio Games, which take place from September 7 to 18.
Mo Farah says he “feels bad” for any Russian athletes who are “clean” of doping as the International Olympic Committee considers their Rio Olympics fate. “It is our federation’s instinctive desire to include, not exclude”.
The IOC however did not divulge the names of the athletes, sports or country.
Isinbayeva – who has threatened to call time on her career over the ban – slammed the CAS ruling as a “funeral for athletics”. The IOC did not say if any of the London athletes had won medals. WADA had already supported the IAAF decision last month to uphold the suspension, which was first imposed in November after allegations of systematic doping in Russian Federation.
The athletes, national Olympic committees and global federations concerned are in the process of being informed, with proceedings likely to follow. His dream of going to the Olympics “was in my hands and they took it away”, Chaly said, vowing to train for the 2020 Games.
The IOC reports that 23 of the 30 athletes who failed tests from 2008 in the latest wave were medallists.
CAS upheld the penalty on the Russian Athletics Federation, allowing the right for concerned sports organizations to take necessary action on the other Russian teams, as reported by the New York Times.
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Whatever happens, Russian track and field athletes are unlikely to be the only ones banned from Rio.
