The International Judo Federation has cleared all 11 Russian judo athletes to compete at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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But the International Olympic Committee said “rigorous” extra testing would be imposed on Russians allowed into the Games.
The FEI has today received confirmation from the IOC that all five Russian equestrian athletes have been cleared to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio.
Approximately 270 athletes from Russian Federation will make up Moscow’s team at the Rio Olympic Games, the country’s committee revealed on Thursday.
As a result, WADA suggested that the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and all international sports federations ban Russian athletes from all international sports competitions, including Rio 2016.
He said it would be tragic if any of the 250-plus Russians awaiting a final green light from the IOC after being cleared to compete by the global federations, were now sent home. “So as of now, the Russian team is probably the cleanest in Rio”.
McLaren, the man whose report lit the fuse, is another who is upset with the IOC’s actions.
Bach covered a range of topics in a more than 20-minute opening address, including the controversy surrounding Russia’s participation in Rio.
One of the lead investigators into the Russian doping crisis accused the World Anti-Doping Agency of contributing to the chaos ahead of the Olympics by not pushing for a probe into the country’s entire sports system at an earlier date.
Instead it chose a set of criteria for athletes to meet, including a clean doping past and sufficient testing at global events, that so far has allowed more than 250 out of the original 387 Russian athletes to be cleared for Rio.
With WADA “sitting on the allegations for close to a year”, according to Robertson, the International Olympic Committee didn’t have enough time to act and was forced to let the governing bodies of individual sports make decisions on whether Russian athletes would be allowed to compete. Only one athlete, US -based long jumper Darya Klishina, was cleared by the IAAF because she had been regularly tested outside Russian Federation.
The IOC had initially said any athlete “implicated” in the state-run doping revealed by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren should be excluded from the Games.
The IOC president said the Russian Federation scandal, which he has described as “contemptuous”, had exposed deficiencies in WADA.
Any Russian who has served a doping ban will not be eligible for the Olympics.
“For me, after this decision you have to be able to look into the eyes of all the athletes and during my many visits to the village here in Rio I have been looking into eyes of many athletes”. AIBA said in a statement.
An appeal by 17 Russian rowers was also been rejected.
Her case will now go back to swimming’s governing body FINA, which is expected to recommend she be cleared to compete by the IOC’s panel of Claudia Bokel, Ugur Erdener and Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr.
One has to wonder if these further revelations will cast even deeper doubt on a games already under intense suspicion from the public concerning how whether or not the athletes are indeed clean.
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Only Russia’s track and field athletes faced a complete ban, with the only participant allowed to compete – long jumper Darya Klishina – doing so as a neutral.
