“We have had a rigid drug-testing programme, especially leading up to Rio 2016, and all four Russian athletes have been tested in and out of competition and their samples have been analysed outside of Russia”, said Badminton World Federation’s (BFW) Thomas Lund.
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The IWF ruling took time because on Tuesday it asked the International Olympic Committee and WADA for “further clarification” on the recent IOC ruling giving individual sports federations the responsibility of deciding which Russian athletes can compete in Rio.
Last month, the IWF said its Executive Board had chose to suspend for a year national federations that produced three or more doping violations in re-tests from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games – made possible by improved detection techniques.
“We’re after medals, that’s it”, handball player Anna Sen said as she prepared to board the flight.
The Olympic Channel will broadcast original content and live sports events, news and highlights, as well as features on elite athletes as they pursue their athletic ambitions. “This needs to be reevaluated and we will be paying more attention to this question”.
Irina Maksimova, a librarian, said she believed the doping allegations were part of a plot to take away the 2018 World Cup from Russian Federation. “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger”.
“The hurdles that those Russian athletes who have been cleared to compete, the hurdles that they had to jump to be here are very strict and very high”.
The Australian gymnastics team are awaiting a decision by the worldwide federation (FIG) on Russian athletes to see if they will replace them, while the women’s eight rowing crew has been handed a berth in place of a banned Russian team. Russia’s head swim coach Sergei Kolmogorov told Russian agency R-Sport that swimmers barred from the games, including world 100-meter breaststroke champion Yulia Efimova, were at a pre-Olympic training camp in Brazil in the hope of a late reprieve to allow them to race in Rio.
The eight competition spots have been offered to other countries.
Putin last week called for the creation of a new state-backed anti-doping commission to draw up future strategy.
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