As of Saturday, the Russian national team to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro unites 266 athletes, representing 29 kinds of sports, Russia’s Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko said in an interview with Match TV.
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Athletes bound for the Rio Olympic Games who have benefited from gene doping will face the threat of being exposed due to a new test which has been developed by Australian researchers.
Having already had two quota places removed for previous doping violations, the IWF ruled that the remaining eight Russians would also not be allowed to compete in Rio following the reanalysis of samples from the Beijing and London Games.
He is a three-time world and nine-time European champion.
Brazil’s federal government has severed its contract with a security firm that was supposed to operate x-ray machines during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The wrestling decision takes the number of Russian athletes suspended from Rio to 112 of the 387 initially announced by the ROC.
It is a conflict of interest that the director of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Craig Reedie, is also a vice president of the IOC.
“The [Russian Weightlifting] Federation will do everything in its power to rehabilitate us, but it is impossible to do it before the Olympics; there is no time to do anything”, Russian weightlifter Aleksey Lovchev told RT, commenting on the IWF decision.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said a three-member panel will make the “final decision” on which Russian athletes can compete in the Rio Olympics, set to begin in less than a week.
A statement issued by CAS on Saturday said the two swimmers had asked sport’s highest court to declare the International Olympic Committee ruling “invalid and unenforceable”.
Apti Aukhadov, Aleksandr Ivanov, Svetlana Tsarukayeva, Natalya Zabolotnaya and Tatiana Kashirina all won silver medals at the London Games four years ago, but none will be able to defend their titles this summer.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said on Saturday that he still expects atleast 266 athletes to compete.
Earlier this month the International Association of Athletics Federations upheld the ban of all Russian track and field athletes from Rio except a long jumper allowed to compete under a neutral flag.
Reedie had led calls for a blanket ban on Russian Federation over the doping.
It named Russian Federation, along with Kazakhstan and Belarus, but said it would await confirmation of the positive tests from the International Olympic Committee before implementing the suspension.
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However, the International Olympic Committee decided against a blanket ban.
