The unidentified competitor’s A sample tested positive for banned substances in a pre-Games test conducted in July in Athens and the athlete has left the Olympic village.
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An unnamed Greek athlete has been expelled from the Rio Olympic Games after failing a drugs test.
“The Hellenic Olympic Committee has requested the testing of all Greek athletes who are going to participate in the Games”.
After the review, the IOC declared in Thursday’s statement: “271 athletes will form the team entered by the Russian National Olympic Committee from the original entry list of 389 athletes”. An HOC official told Reuters the test had been conducted on July 5 and the athlete was on the way back to Greece.
Cypriot weightlifter Antonis Martasidis and an unconfirmed Greek competitor have emerged today as the first two athletes sent home from Rio 2016 for doping.
The IOC recently rejected calls from anti-doping organizations to ban Russia’s entire team following a report by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigator that detailed evidence of state-directed doping and cover-ups. The findings of the investigation led to the ban of 118 Russian athletes from this summer’s Olympics, including tennis ace Maria Sharapova, who failed a drugs test during the Australian Open in January.
That triggered an automatic suspension from Rio according to criteria laid down by the International Olympic Committee last month in response to an independent report confirming state-backed Russian doping across a wide range of sports.
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However, Wada announced in June that it had suspended the accreditation of the Brazil’s only doping laboratory.
