It follows last month’s report by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren for WADA, which said Russia’s sports ministry and secret services evaded drug testers by switching samples at Russian laboratories.
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The International Olympic Committee confirmed the number in a statement issued in the evening. “But it should be an integrated system”. Since that time, 119 athletes from all the competing nations have tested positive for banned substances at the Summer Games.
The court says it should now be up to the International Rowing Federation to decide “without delay” whether or not Karabelshikova and Podshivalov can compete.
“In weightlifting, the position of our representative to the worldwide organisation is not clear”, he said.
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.
“We are sure that politics is behind it, especially because we see that the attitude of some forces toward sportsmen of different countries is not the same”, Ambassador Sergey Akopov said in an interview in Rio.
Russia’s track and field team was suspended in separate action by the sport’s governing body, the IAAF, following similar revelations of state-backed doping previous year. Keep reading for all the details on this unfortunate punishment on the eve of the opening ceremonies.
While all Russian weightlifters have been banned, all of the country’s boxers have been allowed to compete.
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s former chief investigator has claimed the agency deliberately ignored evidence of a state-sponsored Russian doping operation, effectively neutering the punishment Russia eventually received.
“What is therefore not acceptable is the insinuation by some proponents of this “nuclear option” that anyone who does not share their opinion is not fighting against doping”, he added.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) said all 11 Russian boxers who qualified for the Games had been given the all clear.
A three-man IOC commission will confirm the athletes put forward by the global sports federations.
Reedie said he found some of the International Olympic Committee criticism “personally offensive” and defended WADA, although he accepted that some of the agency’s workings needed an overhaul.
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The most significant case still to be heard, though, is the appeal of Russia’s four-time world swimming champion Yulia Efimova against her ban, as she was blocked on the basis of having already served a drugs ban that expired in early 2015.
