Modern pentathlon’s governing body said two more Russians nominated for Rio – Maksim Kustov and Ilia Frolov – had been implicated in the McLaren report and “are no longer eligible to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games”.
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A number of sports are yet to declare their position with regard to Russian athletes, although only weightlifting is likely to follow athletics’ example and issue a team ban.
The report by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) detailed an elaborate doping system in Russian Federation directed by the sports ministry that affected more than 30 sports. The five include gold medalist Alexander Dyachenko and 2012 bronze medalist Alexei Korovashkov.
“I completely condemn all doping in sport and what has happened in Russian Federation is totally reprehensible and has no place in sport, but he one thing that was very clear from the McLaren report was that the Olympic Committee of Russian Federation was not implicated in any shape or form”.
Instead, the International Olympic Committee said it would be up to individual sports federations to decide which athletes were eligible for Rio – but that anyone who had been sanctioned for doping should not be able to go.
SHOOTING – The International Shooting Federation (ISSF) has cleared all 18 Russian shooters to compete at the Games.
There was also no word on the identities of the Russian judo players responsible for the eight manipulated drugs tests uncovered by McLaren.
FINA barred Nikita Lobintsev, Vladimir Morozov and Daria Ustinova because their names appeared in McLaren’s report, and the Russian authorities withdrew Mikhail Dovgalyuk, Yulia Efimova, Natalia Lovtcova and open-water swimmer Anastasia Krapivina.
However, Chiller since said she expects the Australians to move in Wednesday, after having paid for hotel accommodation for athletes and cleaning services.
There was good news for Russian Federation as its judo and shooting teams – comprised 11 and 18 athletes respectively – received approval to compete from their sports’ global governing bodies. The Continental Olympic Associations, athletes commissions; the Executive Board decided unanimously with one abstention.
Also on Tuesday, modern pentathlon officials announced the exclusion of two Russians in their sport.
The entire Russian track contingent has been banned from worldwide competition since previous year.
“This is politics, my friend”, said the head of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to Russian prankers who presented themselves in a telephone conversation as Minister of Sports of Ukraine. They were listed as Tuiana Dashidorzhieva, Ksenia Perova and Inna Stepanova.
The pair gave evidence to a German documentary maker in 2014 that led to an independent report being commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency which found evidence of widespread doping.
Lalovic said that the UWW recently clarified to the International Olympic Committee that the Russian labs implicated in the McLaren Report are not part of its testing protocol.
Doping would never be brought under control “until International Olympic Committee members start caring about clean athletes and about clean sport and competition”, Stepanov said.
Russian Federation has the possibility to form a men’s four (M4-) with the eligible six rowers for competition in Rio 2016.
The International Equestrian Federation said there was no indication of doping within Russia’s five-rider team.
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The entire Russian crew have been ruled ineligible.
