Dozens of Russian athletes have been denied participation in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because they faced criteria that could not be met under any circumstance, the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, Aleksandr Zhukov, said at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday. Please click the button below to manage your account.
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Calls for an all-out ban on Russian competitors in the wake of the report were overruled by the IOC, which instead set a number of criteria, including a spotless doping record and sufficient global doping test, for Russians to be cleared to compete in Rio.
He again pointed blame at the World Anti-Doping Agency for failin.
“The result is death and devastation”.
No country as a whole has ever been barred from the games for doping, and Russian Federation is a major force in the Olympic movement as well as a sports powerhouse. I have worked with Angela Ruggiero as the Vice-Chair over the past two years, and I am convinced she will continue to be the voice of the athletes within the IOC Executive Board and the Olympic Movement.
“What is therefore not acceptable is the insinuation by some proponents of this “nuclear option” that anyone who does not share their opinion is not fighting against doping”, he added.
Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva was among those arguing the Russian track and field team’s case Tuesday in Geneva at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Bach says several hiccups at the athletes’ village have been solved, that water quality at the sailing venue is according to the standards of the World Health Organization, and that the crucial metro line to Olympic venues has finally opened.
The 22 “are not at all considered to have participated in doping, but do not meet the conditions established by the IOC in their decision of 24 July 2016 for participation in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games”, the federation said.
“If we can achieve this, then the fight against doping will have some kind of final effect”, he told RIA-Novosti news agency.
A blanket ban would have been sending out the severest message that doping will not be tolerated yet the International Olympic Committee have probably concluded that the political fall-out is not worth it, but have merely shown themselves to lack authority when hard evidence was placed in front of them.
Israeli member Alex Gilady echoed that feeling.
Mutko said: “I hope that today or tomorrow all the formalities regarding letting the team (compete in Rio) will be completed”.
“WADA’s Executive Committee. supported Professor McLaren’s independent mandate, which was to obtain evidence as quickly as possible in the interest of clean athletes”, WADA chief Craig Reedie said in a statement.
The World Anti-Doping Agency was told it needed to restore its reputation as the war of words over the timing of its response to the Russian doping scandal escalated on Tuesday. He also questioned why WADA had accredited the Moscow and Sochi doping labs at the centre of the scandal.
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“We need to do a lot more to show that we really do care about fair play, honest competition and clean athletes”, he said.
