Prass was one of the players older than 23 selected for Brazil’s squad, under Olympic soccer rules.
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The move follows Monday’s decision to withdraw three Russian rowers and seven swimmers from the Games.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach insisted the unprecedented eligibility criteria put in place for Russians had teeth, with the country’s athletes having to clear “the highest hurdles” before going to the Games, which start in just 10 days.
Most Russian competitors will fly out on Thursday, but it remains to be seen how many will actually take part in the Games because several federations have yet to weigh in.
Russia’s track and field team is nearly entirely banned from the games under an earlier decision from the IAAF, leaving long jumper Darya Klishina as the only athlete eligible to represent Russian Federation out of 68 who were entered. Long jumper Darya Klishina is the only athlete to have been cleared to participate in Rio as a neutral athlete.
BADMINTON – Awaiting decision on four badminton players set to compete at Rio. “We await the Russian Rowing Federation’s decision on this possibility”.
The four other banned canoeists are Alexei Korovashkov – a 2012 bronze medalist in the C2 1,000 meters event – Andrei Kraitor, Elena Anyushina and Nataliya Podolskaya.
In a statement released after the IOC’s decision to not ban the entire Russian Olympic contingent, Scott Blackmun said if the individual sports enforce the conditions established by the IOC for entry and the IOC makes sure those conditions are met, then it would be a step in the right direction. The official explanation for just why came from International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, who said it would be unfair to ban all Russians when it has not been proven all of them cheat.
Fencing joins archery, badminton, equestrian, judo, shooting and tennis in clearing all of Russia’s proposed athletes for the Rio Olympics, which starts on August 5.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the IJF’s honorary president.
UNSANITARY ACCOMMODATIONS: The Olympic team of Belarus has branded the athletes’ village in Rio de Janeiro unsanitary, a day after Australia refused to check its athletes in over health concerns.
They asked sports federations, however, to stop Russian athletes from competing in Rio who were implicated in the McLaren report, or had been previously sanctioned.
Zhukov said 13 members of Russia’s Olympic team had a doping history, according to the R-Sport news agency. While athletics is undoubtedly the main culprit, it is impossible to ignore the disappearance of positive test results that WADA found in sports like cycling, weightlifting, rowing and swimming – and twenty-odd other sports as well.
SAILING – World Sailing has provisionally confirmed the participation of six athletes from Russian Federation for the Games.
Pavel Sozykin was the lone athlete banned from competing in Rio.
Nenad Lalovic issued a statement on Tuesday via United World Wrestling saying that the body was starting a process to “validate” each Russian wrestler qualified for Rio to ensure they were not implicated in doping.
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TRIATHLON – Awaiting decision on six Russians. In one sense it was disappointing that the IOC deferred the decision to the International Sport Federations instead of making that decision from its self-declared position as the moral authority of sport.
