The IOC says the Joint Integrity Intelligence Unit will work with experts from the Rio organizing committee in the athletes village and “behind the scenes” at the games.
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The International Weightlifting Federation [IWF] has followed athletics lead and imposed a blanket ban on the Russian weightlifting team.
Russia’s weightlifting team was barred on Friday from participating in the Rio Olympics due to doping.
“They should have chose to permit all athletes with spotless reputation (to the Games, )” he said, specifically referring to Oleg Chen and David Berdzhanyan.
The IWF said a reanalyses of the urine samples of eight Russian weightlifters showed seven used performance-enhancing drugs.
Lobintsev won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Games in the 4×100 freestyle relay.
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.
The panel will examine each case individually and make the “final decision” before Friday, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said late on Saturday. It is not yet known when this will be announced however.
The federations of boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo still have to confirm their decisions. “We shall attempt protecting our athletes”. “There was no big drama”, he said.
Australia had led a boycott over conditions at the village last week.
Russian weightlifters will not be allowed to compete at the Olympics after the International Weightlifting Federation elected to ban them from the upcoming Games.
The U.S. added long jumper Michael Hartfield to its track team after Marquis Dendy withdrew with a leg injury.
Just days ahead of the Olympic Games the waterways of Rio de Janeiro are as filthy as ever, contaminated with raw human sewage teeming with risky viruses and bacteria, according to a 16-month-long study commissioned by.
Stepanova has rejected an invitation to attend the Olympics as a guest, with the International Olympic Committee arguing her drugs-tainted past made her ineligible to compete in Rio.
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MOSCOW (AP) – Russia is confident that most of its Olympic team will be able to compete in Rio de Janeiro, but its efforts to reinstate banned athletes are a mixed bag.
