One of those concluded that the Russian Olympic Committee could not nominate athletes who had previously served doping bans.
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Recently, the IOC opted not to issue a total ban of Russian athletes, so as not to punish those who are legitimately clean and not acting above the Olympic rules and in violation of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The CAS decision could force other federations, who were asked by the International Olympic Committee to recommend which Russians could compete, to reconsider their lists.
A three-person International Olympic Committee panel had assessed which athletes from Russian Federation can take part after the World Anti-Doping Agency report last month.
A top Russian official said Thursday that at least 271 athletes would compete in the Rio Olympics after clearing a doping probe which has slashed their team to its smallest size in more than a century.
The IOC has also cleared other Russian swimmers – Yuliya Yefimova and Natalya Lovtsova, Darya Ustinova, Mikhail Dovganyuk, and Anastasia Krapivina – for taking part in the Olympics, head of Russia’s Olympic delegation Igor Kazikov told TASS.
“The Russian team may have experienced the toughest checks of the Olympics, because they had to go through multiple tests and checked”, Zhukov said. Here’s all you need to know about what a cop-out the IOC has committed: Moscow’s minister of sport reacted positively to the ruling, proclaiming that most Russian athletes will indeed qualify to participate – and march into Rio under the Russian flag.
Russia’s track and field team remains barred following an earlier decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Bach added that the presence of the IOC’s Olympic refugee team, which consists of 10 athletes, who have fled either war or poverty in order to compete in the Rio games, was a statement to a world “where selfishness is gaining ground, where certain people claim to be superior to others”.
But the pressure will mount if Russia’s relatively intact team starts to win lots of medals.
Efimova’s name is now missing from the starting list for the 100 meters breaststroke, whose heats take place on Sunday, and Wednesday’s 200m, the event in which she won an Olympic bronze medal in London in 2012.
The pair’s case now goes back to rowing’s worldwide federation, which will then assess if they have been sufficiently tested outside of Russia by credible anti-doping agencies.
Rio de Janeiro: The World Anti-Doping Agency, target of stinging attacks from Olympic chiefs in a drug controversy-fuelled countdown to the Rio Games, has hit back at claims it has overblown the extent of doping in Russian Federation.
Speaking Tuesday, Bach called for a complete overhaul of the anti-doping system.
“I believe it’s very unfair that such athletes like Yelena Isinbayeva and Sergei Shubenkov, without any doping history, absolutely clean, can not participate in the Olympics, however many athletes including American runners like for example (Justin) Gatlin and Tyson (Gay), who were punished for doping many times, will take part in these Olympics”, he said.
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In Group C, defending champion Mexico drew 2-2 with Germany despite twice having the lead in the northeastern city of Salvador.
