Also, Russia also looks set to field a full team of four players in Olympic badminton, the Russian Badminton Federation said Tuesday, citing assurances from the Badminton World Federation.
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Five canoeists including a gold medallist and a five-time world champion became the latest Russian competitors to be banned from next month’s Rio Olympics after an explosive report revealed state-run doping across Russian sport.
Once the determinations regarding eligibility have been made in-line with the International Olympic Committee announcement, the athletes and their Member National Authority will be notified, after which World Sailing will issue a press release addressing the eligibility of the Russian athletes.
Stepanova has been deemed ineligible to compete under the International Olympic Committee executive board ruling, which rejected calls for a blanket ban on Russia but instead said Russian athletes who had previously been caught doping could not be selected.
“The ISSF furthermore is relieved to confirm that these three samples had been correctly entered, at the time they were reported, into the ADAMS database as positives, that all the result management procedures had been followed and that the matters were resolved”.
Russian Federation initially selected 387 athletes for Rio, approximately 50 fewer than recent summer Games’, but has already lost nearly 90 of those in the individual vetting process that each sport is now undertaking.
Yet, on Sunday, the IOC’s executive board asked the global federations that govern each sport to do most of the work in deciding who is eligible for Rio de Janeiro next month.
Lalovic said that the UWW recently clarified to the International Olympic Committee that the Russian labs implicated in the McLaren Report are not part of its testing protocol.
The ICF also said that Russian Federation would not be allowed to enter boats in four events in which the excluded athletes would have raced.
Twenty-five canoe sprint athletes were named in the damning report issued last week by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, which laid bare doping in dozens of Russian Olympic sports.
In a clear reference to the likes of ex-WADA presidents John Fahey and Dick Pound, current WADA boss Sir Craig Reedie and the leaders of national anti-doping agencies such as American Travis Tygart, an ASOIF statement said McLaren’s report raised “huge concerns” but does not mean sport takes doping lightly.
It was one of several facets from the decision handed down Sunday that indicated the difficulty the International Olympic Committee had in finding the right balance between, as president Thomas Bach called it, “individual justice and collective responsibility”.
McLaren’s report last week specifically detailed how Russian state officials allegedly intervened to cover up hundreds of failed drug tests.
Dyachenko won gold in the men’s 200m double kayak at the 2012 Olympics in London. The three other registered Russian athletes are allowed to compete. “Why are only Russian sportsmen being punished in this way” Zhukov said in televised comments.
Stepanov said there is no money to fund an appeal to CAS, which would have the last say on her possible ban.
The 24-year-old is also four-time world champion in the breaststroke.
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Judo joins tennis as sports that have chose to allow Russian competitors to participate.
