It is very hard and sad that the team has been disqualified from the entire olympics, but now we have to see what step does Russian Federation is going to take.
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Russia’s sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, has promised there will also be an appeal to CAS against the blanket ban of the country’s weightlifting team. All but one track and field team members were banned by their federation.
The IOC has set up a special three-person panel to make a final ruling on which individual Russian athletes are allowed to compete in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Russian Federation nominated eight weightlifters to compete in Rio but Tatiana Kashirina, who won a silver medal at the London Olympics in the women’s +75kg category, and Anastasiia Romanova were withdrawn due to previous anti-doping rule violations. Pressure for the full sanction followed a World Anti-Doping Agency report by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren that accused Russia’s sports ministry of overseeing a vast doping conspiracy involving the country’s summer and winter sports athletes. FINA has not specifically declared a decision on the other 29 Russian swimmers, though they were included in the federation’s declared “final entry lists” for the Olympics.
Tomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, center, Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor Eduardo Paes, left, and Carlos Arthur Nuzman, president of the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee visit the Orla Conde, the place that…
The world’s top four weightlifting nations are Russia, China, North Korea and Kazakhstan.
The IWF, which joins the IAAF in taking seriously the International Olympic Committee directive that “a lack of a positive test is no longer sufficient”, cited other evidence including 7 confirmed adverse analytical findings for Russian weightlifters in Beijing and London retests as the reason for the total ban.
On July 24, the International Olympic Committee held a meeting of its executive board to discuss possible blanket ban of Russian athletes at the Rio Olympics.
An IOC program commission report released on Friday said the five sports are a blend of the traditional and emerging, youth-focused events, and all have global and local appeal. “Nobody implicated, be it an athlete, an official, or an NF, may be accepted for entry or accreditation for the Olympic Games”.
“We would like to highlight the extremely shocking and disappointing statistics regarding the Russian weightlifters”, said a statement by IWF.
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A total of 225 Russians have so far been approved to compete in Rio, with 47 across boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo still waiting to hear from their respective federations.
