Track and field athletes were banned relatively early on in the process, but the International Olympic Committee left much of the decision making up to the individual governing bodies of each sport.
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The controversial paragraph said that the Russian Olympic Committee “is not allowed to enter any athlete for the Olympic Games Rio 2016 who has ever been sanctioned for doping, even if he or she has served the sanction”.
Instead, the IOC asked worldwide federations to examine individual Russian athletes to determine if they should be eligible for the games.
The Stepanovas said they believed the IOC’s focus on Yulia’s past doping sanction shifted the spotlight away from the real issue, which is that the IOC took no action against Russian Federation for punishing her for being a credible whistleblower by refusing to put her on Russia’s Olympic team.
Wrestler Viktor Lebedev and sailor Pavel Sozykin were waiting to hear the result of appeals to CAS against their exclusion from Rio.
The bans affected mostly the Russian track and field, rowing and weight lifting teams.
Martasidis tested positive for banned substances in a doping control conducted on July 25 in Athens and has had his Games accreditation stripped, the Cypriot Olympic Committee said.
Only one athlete, US -based long jumper Darya Klishina, was cleared by the IAAF because she had been regularly tested outside Russian Federation.
Many consider the IOC’s decision a victory for Russian Federation, a nation that the independent World Anti-Doping Agency slammed for having what it called a state-sponsored doping program.
“All five riders have been tested and we did individual analysis of their anti-doping history, which we submitted to the IOC”. Bach went against that recommendation, citing the “concept of individual justice” to justify the call to hand over the decisions to the sports.
The final number will be revealed on Friday, Zhukov said.
Russian swimming great Alexander Popov also hit out at the track and field ban and levelled a personal attack on Britain’s Sebastian Coe, president of the IAAF. “I think this tense atmosphere has done us some good”.
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“On top of all that, Russian athletes are going through additional testing which is taking place at the Olympic village”. We can not destroy justice. “This message is you can be successful outside such a system”, said Bach. “We had to respect basic principles of natural law”.
