“The review panel is due to make a final decision in the coming days”.
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The panel will consist of three executive board members: Turkey’s Ugur Erdener, chairman of the International Olympic Committee medical commission; Germany’s Claudia Bokel, head of the athletes’ commission; and Spain’s Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., a vice president of the modern pentathlon federation.
So far, at least 117 of the 387 athletes on Russia’s 2016 Olympic team have been banned following an independent investigation that revealed a state-backed doping program in Russian Federation.
Adams said the panel will review every athlete cleared by the federations, but would not reopen the cases of those who have been barred.
Two Russian swimmers filed an appeal Saturday against their exclusion from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, claiming the ban is “invalid” and “unenforceable”.
As part of the condition of Russian Federation being allowed to compete at Rio 2016, it was agreed that athletes who had previously tested positive for banned drugs and were linked to the McLaren Report would not be selected.
On Monday, swimming’s world governing body FINA banned both, along with their Russian compatriot Daria Ustinova, because their names appeared in Canadian law professor Richard McLaren’s damning report.
“We would herewith once more like to ask the IOC (Executive Board) to re-assess the decision on Yulia”.
“We trust that we could also clarify that the International Olympic Committee ruling on previously banned Russian athletes does not apply to Yulia as she was declared eligible to run”.
During the period he was taking meldonium, Lobinstev also won four medals at the FINA World Championships, three silver and a bronze, and two European Championship gold medals.
He wrote in an open letter on Facebook: “Throughout the last 6 years I’ve been drug tested by doping control agencies at least once a month”.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said Friday that, so far, 272 of the country’s athletes had been cleared by global federations, out of an original team of 387.
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“Such paragraph sets out the new criteria for the admission of Russian athletes at the Olympic Games in Rio”. The International Weightlifting Federation on Friday banned the eight-strong weightlifting team, saying Russian athletes have to assume collective responsibility following positive results of seven dope tests which have been re-examined from past Olympics.
