The Olympics opening ceremony takes place on Friday. Overall, more than 100 Russians have been excluded, including 67 in track and field.
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There are still some cases the International Olympic Committee has yet to decide, Russian officials said.
It said federations should not allow Russians to compete if there could be any doubt about their doping record – and that any athletes previously sanctioned should not be in Rio.
In July, Efimova filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over her doping-related ban on participation in the upcoming 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
In other news from Rio, Russia’s consul in the city has denied that any member of the consular staff was involved in a “shootout”, after a Russian diplomat was reported to have struggled with a robber before taking his gun and shooting him.
And now she is heading to Rio as a strong contender in the 100m in what is likely to be a grudge race with 2012 Olympic champion Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania, American Lilly King and Jamaican Aila Atkinson. “The majority of the sports have been admitted in full”.
The bulk of the Russian team arrived Thursday and checked into the athletes’ village, and many of them are already undergoing additional drug testing, according to reporters who attended a news conference with Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov.
Several worldwide federations announced separately that they had received final approval for Russian entries, including boxing, judo, equestrian, volleyball, golf and gymnastics. “Today there is no cleaner and more regulated team than Russia’s”.
The Cas said the rule “does not respect the athletes’ right of natural justice”.
We’ll update this post if appeals change anything.
Minutes before confirmation arrived of the review panel’s much-awaited decision, Russian rowers Anastasia Karelbelshikova and Ivan Podshivalov had their appeals against their disqualification from Rio partially upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
“We are living in a world of crises, mistrust and uncertainty”, Bach said.
The decision means athletes with past doping offenses could challenge their Rio bans, the BBC says.
It’s not the first time CAS has struck down an International Olympic Committee anti-doping measure.
This supports an earlier Cas decision – known as the Osaka rule – which established athletes could not be punished twice for the same doping offence.
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“We want to tell Bach: game over, you may leave”, said Ines Geipel, a former sprinter who now heads an association to help the thousands of ex-athletes involved in the former East German state’s doping programme.
