Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko on Friday told local media that 272 of the country’s athletes had been approved by worldwide sports federations, out of an original team of 387, adding that the number could rise. Global sports federations must now remove any athlete previously banned for doping or who was implicated in last week’s McLaren report alleging a mass cover up of failed drug tests.
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The IOC panel consists of Ugur Erdener, the IOC’s medical commission chairman, Claudia Bokel, head of the athletes commission and fellow IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., vice president of the Modern Pentathlon federation.
Russia’s weightlifting team has been banned from competing at the Rio Olympics because of doping offences.
Around 70 athletes from Russias Olympic team touched down in Brazil on Friday ahead of next months games, which start in Rio on August 5.
While his information can help global federations, McLaren said that was as much as he could do at this point in time.
A total of 225 Russians have so far been approved to compete in Rio, with 47 across boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo still waiting to hear from their respective federations.
THE risk of Zika virus infections at the Olympic Games is both low and manageable, the chief of the World Health Organisation said yesterday, a week before the event kicks off in the Brazilian capital.
The IOC’s ruling executive board opens a two-day meeting today, its last formal gathering before Friday’s opening ceremony at Maracana Stadium. But it ordered all individual sports federations to apply new criteria to decide which athletes could be allowed to compete.
SPANISH weight-lifter Lidia Valentin hopes to be awarded an Olympic gold medal from London 2012 after the athletes that finished above her all failed drug tests when their samples were reanalysed.
As a result of her revelations, Russian track and field athletes have been banned from the Games with many Russians from other sports also excluded over past doping offences.
Tomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, center, Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor Eduardo Paes, left, and Carlos Arthur Nuzman, president of the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee visit the Orla Conde, the place that.
World Rowing’s approval process left just six rowers eligible to compete for Rio, meaning Russian Federation could only compete in one event, the men’s four, and meant reserve crews from around the world have rushed to Brazil to compete.
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Neither swimmer has ever been banned from competing for a positive test, and have repeatedly said they are clean athletes.
