As a result of her revelations, Russian track and field athletes have been banned from the Games with many Russians from other sports also excluded over past doping offences.
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Three-time Olympic canoeing champion Katalin Kovacs of Hungary is retiring after failing to qualify for the Rio Olympics.
The IOC says the integrity unit will be responsible for “the prevention, monitoring and assessment of any unethical activity” related to the games.
Zabelinskaya served an 18-month ban and returned to racing in late 2015, while Shilov’s doping positive occurred in 2009.
More than 100 athletes from what was originally a 387-strong team have been barred from competing in Rio by global sports federations under sanctions which most Russian athletes consider unfair.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said some of the Russian competitors had been named in a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
London Olympics bronze medallist Vladimir Morozov became the first to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against an IOC order to worldwide federations to exclude athletes named in a report alleging state-run doping in Russia.
Saturday’s meeting came less than a week after the International Olympic Committee board decided not to ban Russia’s entire team from the games because of state-sponsored doping.
Having already had two quota places removed for previous doping violations, the IWF ruled that the remaining eight Russians would also not be allowed to compete in Rio following the reanalysis of samples from the Beijing and London Games.
“We’re after medals, that’s it”, handball player Anna Sen said as she prepared to board the flight.
Wrestling is likely to be one of the most controversial sports in Rio as Russian Federation will nearly certainly collect medals, having won 11 at London 2012. Instead, the International Federation (IF) for each sport-not just the 20 (!) implicated in the McLaren report-must decide whether its Russian delegation can compete.
However, only one track and field athlete, long jumper Darya Klishina, has been given the green light with the country essentially suspended from the Games in that sport. And Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes lashed out Friday at the Olympics organizing committee, accusing it of “serious problems” in managing the village.
In addition, the IWF has punished North Korea, Romania, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Moldova by reducing the allocation of lifters they can send to Rio.
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Rio’s troubled preparations for the Games, which start on Friday, also occupied the International Olympic Committee executive who heard on Saturday from chief Rio organiser Carlos Nuzman.
