You prepare three years of your life to be in the Olympics and then something like this ends up hurting you.
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Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, CAS first opened local offices at Olympics for the Atlanta Games in 1996.
“Understanding the huge impact this scandal has on world sports, the clean Russian athletes nonetheless should have a chance just like other clean athletes from any other country”. Russia’s rowing federation said it would appeal.
The International Rowing Federation made the decision to award a qualification place to Australia on Tuesday night.
Instead, the International Olympic Committee said it would be up to individual sports federations to decide which athletes were eligible for Rio – but that anyone who had been sanctioned for doping should not be able to go.
The other six athletes on the Russian team were approved.
Worldwide federations in canoeing, sailing and modern pentathlon ruled out eight on Tuesday, including an Olympic gold medalist.
In some rare good news for Russia, the International Shooting Sport Federation said that all 18 competitors nominated by Russia had been cleared because they had no positive drug tests on their record and were not mentioned in the McLaren report.
McLaren’s report last week specifically detailed how Russian state officials allegedly intervened to cover up hundreds of failed drug tests.
“Within the framework of the IJF anti-doping rules and testing scheme, these athletes, like all athletes participating in the World Judo Tour circuit, were tested a number of times, outside Russian Federation as well, during global competitions or through out-of-competition tests”.
Vizer, the former SportAccord President and a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin who is an honorary President of the IJF, has taken this view.
Doping whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova has questioned the “unfair” decision by the International Olympic Committee to ban her from the Rio Olympics, BBC reports.
While each sport works out what to do about Russia, the umbrella group that represents their interests, the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, fired an extraordinary broadside at those who have criticised the Olympic movement’s handling of the crisis.
The ASOIF statement suggests that it would have been better to act on the interim report of World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren, which alleged a massive cover-up of Russian doping cases, after the games in Rio.
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.
Wada president Sir Craig Reedie said he was “disappointed” with that decision.
Blackmun also reiterated what he’s said all summer: that the system is flawed and in need of reform.
Five canoeists and two modern pentathletes were barred, with the number of Russians banned since Sunday standing at 41.
Kustov had been entered for the Russian team, with Frolov as a reserve, and both will now be excluded, the UIPM says.
It also said Stepanova should not be allowed to compete, despite her having earlier won the support of athletics’ governing body, the IAAF.
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The pair gave evidence to a German documentary maker in 2014 that led to an independent report being commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which uncovered the scale of doping by athletes in the country.
