Russian Federation is one of several countries that will trigger that rule, losing its remaining eight competitors in the Rio weightlifting competition, but it depends on the International Olympic Committee being able to fully process these cases.
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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.
The Russian athletes departed by SU7150 flight at 08:10 am, Moscow time, Thursday from the Russian capital’s Sheremetyevo airport.
The ban is part of a large-scale doping scandal involving Russian athletes across many sports, including the track and field team.
The two were barred from the games by swimming’s world governing body, FINA, in line with the new criteria for Russian athletes announced by the International Olympic Committee.
An IOC program commission report released on Friday said the five sports are a blend of the traditional and emerging, youth-focused events, and all have worldwide and local appeal.
This ethically warped performance by the panjandrums of the global Olympic “movement” casts a dark shadow indeed over the Rio proceedings.
The International Weightlifting Federation issued the ban on Friday for what it called “extremely shocking” results that brought the sport into “disrepute”.
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.
The three riders withdrawn for their doping pasts are believed to be road cyclist Sergey Shilov, Tour de France stage victor Ilnur Zakarin and Olga Zabelinskaya, a double bronze medallist on the road at London 2012.
He is staying in the same block as the Refugee Olympic team.
Rio officials on Thursday declared the compound “fully ready” after deploying hundreds of plumbers and electricians, who worked around the clock to ready the buildings.
This follows a previous report by the same agency documenting rampant doping among Russia’s track and field athletes. The IOC decided against a blanket ban and left it up to individual global sporting federations to approve Russian athletes.
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Anatoly Terekhov, head of the Russian Taekwondo Union, says all Russians entered for taekwondo in Rio have been approved by the World Taekwondo Federation, in comments to Russian agency R-Sport.
