Professor Richard McLaren has moved to clarify his report on Russian athletes, insisting he can not name or release information regarding individuals.
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The International Weightlifting Federation said the “integrity of the sport has been seriously damaged on multiple times and levels by the Russians”.
The International Weightlifting Federation has banned the Russian federation and all its weightlifters from the Rio Olympics.
Instead of exercising the nuclear option – banning all 387 Russian athletes, which is unprecedented in the doping age – the International Olympic Committee told the 28 sports federations to analyze each one on a case-by-case basis to determine whether he or she should be eligible.
Aside from athletics, where all bar Florida-based Darya Klishina has been banned from competing at Rio, weightlifting is the only other sport to exclude all Russians after each individual governing body was asked to make a call on a sport-by-sport basis.
This follows a previous report by the same agency documenting rampant doping among Russia’s track and field athletes.
Murders in Rio rose sharply in the first half of 2016, just as officials wanted to use the August 5-21 Olympic Games to showcase the city as a tourist destination.
During the exercise, anti-doping officials took the athletes through the latest prohibited substances list, encouraged them not to self-medicate and seek a doctor’ s counsel and to stay away from supplements.
“It’s a huge injustice for athletes”, she said of the Olympic ban.
He added: “They’ve got their building now, and I hope things go well from now on”. “They didn’t admit me for the Olympics in Rio”.
The U.S. added long jumper Michael Hartfield to its track team after Marquis Dendy withdrew with a leg injury.
Security is the top focus for the laboratory that will conduct doping exams at the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the lab’s director said Friday, amid global scrutiny following the recent scandal surrounding Russian athletes.
Tests conducted by the Russian anti-doping agency, which is suspended following repeated allegations of cover-ups, are not considered valid for Olympic purposes. The other 11 cyclists were cleared to compete, as were 16 wrestlers.
“None of the wrestlers entered in the Olympic Games – or who qualified a place for their NOC – was included in the McLaren report”.
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A reception was hosted at the Kremlin on Thursday for around 100 members of Russia’s Olympic squad, during which President Vladimir Putin called the ban “open discrimination” and an “attempt to bring the rules of world politics into sport”.
