The rowing federation said on its website it will update the public on the cases.
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The cheating involved a concoction of three drugs mixed with alcohol served to athletes and break-ins at the Olympic laboratory in Sochi that witnessed the Russians somehow tamper with the seals on the urine specimens of drugged-up competitors without anyone the wiser for it.
Meanwhile, the men’s soccer competition got underway a day before the Gmanes’ official opening.
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 5 (IANS) Russia Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov has asserted that the country will have the cleanest team at the Rio Olympics after 271 of its athletes were cleared to compete in the Games.
Instead, it will be up to their respective global federations and the IOC to assess if they can be excluded from the Olympics based on the other criteria.
World champion Yulia Efimova led five Russian swimmers who won Olympic reprieves on Friday taking their doping-tainted country to at least 276 competitors at the Rio Games.
This is more than two-thirds of their original entry list of 389 athletes, despite the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) recommending a blanket ban after a state-sponsored doping scandal.
The country’s track-and-field athletes and weightlifters have already been banned over doping offences, and Russian Federation narrowly avoided a complete ban over allegations its government and FSB security service systematically covered up widespread cheating. The decision was in a way a victory for Russian Federation.
Many governments and national anti-doping organisations called for a blanket ban but the International Olympic Committee opted instead to let individual federations decide, before putting their lists in front of a three-person panel.
The Russian 800-meter runner and her husband, Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian Anti-Doping Agency employee, said they would not appeal their case for reinstatement further to CAS. Russian cyclist Ilnur Zakarin was cleared for the Rio Olympics but he will not participate as he had no possibility to prepare for the Games.
“Each and every sportsperson was checked and tested, and the global federations checked them and they concluded and made the decision that there were negative. a huge amount of negative test results that indicates that the huge amount of sportsmen are completely clean”.
“We can do an appeal in 24 hours, so anything is possible”, Matthieu Reeb, secretary-general of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), said when asked if there was enough time for other athletes to have their ban overturned. “This message is you can be successful outside such a system”, said Bach.
The IOC president said that with that step of respect for nature justice, they also send an optimistic note to clean athletes in Russian Federation that they can be successful exterior such a system.
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However, WADA president, Craig Reedie, hit back telling International Olympic Committee delegates that although anti-doping systems weren’t ideal, not all of them were broken.
