The IOC boss said the sports extravaganza would send a message of hope to the watching world.
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The WADA executive committee used the report as a basis for its recommendations to the International Olympic Committee (IOC); the International Paralympic Committee and international sport federations to ban Russian athletes from the competitions.
Meanwhile, an unnamed Greek athlete has been expelled from the Rio Olympic Games after failing a drugs test.
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Police shot a mugger near the stadium where the Rio Olympics opening ceremony took place and a woman was killed close to another Olympic site, police said Saturday.
“This was a ideal opportunity for the International Olympic Committee to provide moral leadership in regard to a country that showed complete contempt for the rules of the game”, Pound, a known hardliner of drug cheats within the International Olympic Committee, said in a commentary for the Globe and Mail newspaper.
Pound said the doping watchdog had to be given the power to test 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and to impose provisional sanctions rather than just give alerts of suspicions to other federations. The IOC is entitled to determine who may compete in the Games; it was an abandonment of its responsibility to purport to delegate the decision to the individual worldwide sport federations, many of which are conflicted in their dealings with Russia.
Karabelshikova and Podshivalov also argued that they should be allowed to compete given they had already served their doping suspensions.
“Seeing all the flags raised in the Olympic Village is a reminder of the truly unifying force of the Olympic Games”.
But when FINA issued a list of seven Russian swimmers banned in the wake of the damning McLaren Report on state-backed doping in Russia, Efimova’s name was on it.
Bach and other International Olympic Committee figures have also attempted to shift blame onto WADA for the failure to spot Russian doping.
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Two-time world freestyle champion Viktor Lebdev was barred from competing in Rio because of previous doping violations in compliance with the new criteria of authorising Russian athletes to participate at the 2016 Games.
