Individual decisions on Russian athletes will be taken by relevant global federations.
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The Rio Games start on August 5 and run through to August 21.
WADA president Craig Reedie, who called for Russia’s complete exclusion from Rio, is to address the International Olympic Committee executive on Sunday. The IOC specified that national anti-doping evidence is insufficient proof, and that an global test and thorough analysis must be conducted.
In the aftermath of that report, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) resisted huge pressure to impose a blanket ban on Russian Federation from the Olympics which get underway on August 5. “Per regulations set by the IOC, Viktor Lebedev was not cleared for consideration due to a positive doping test at the 2006 Junior World Championships”.
The country had earlier been expecting nearly three-quarters of its Olympic team to go to Rio, with the Russian Sports Ministry producing a report claiming 286 members of what had been an nearly 400-strong team would be there.
Rejecting calls for a blanket ban on Russia, the International Olympic Committee decided on July 24 that individual sports federations should investigate athletes implicated in the report and decide who should be excluded.
A three-strong International Olympic Committee panel will have the final say on Russian competitors’ eligibility for this summer’s Rio Games.
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.
Russians hoping to compete in the boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo are still waiting to hear from the respective federations on whether they will be banned or not.
Australian Olympic team members were forced to evacuate their lodgings on Friday at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after a small fire in a basement parking area caused smoke to fill the stairwells. “There was no big drama”, he said.
The athletes village has also been criticised by some delegations about conditions.
The U.S. added long jumper Michael Hartfield to its track team after Marquis Dendy withdrew with a leg injury. “They didn’t admit me for the Olympics in Rio”.
Hartfield finished fifth at US Olympic trials earlier this month and was next in line for a spot because he had reached an Olympic qualifying standard earlier in the year. She was suspended from worldwide competition from 2013 to 2015 for testing positive for the anabolic agent stanozolol.
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IOC President Thomas Bach passes a soccer ball with kids from a local soccer club on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, July 28, 2016.
