But it’s not the kind that will win any medals.
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The IOC asked global sports federations to decide which Russian athletes could be free to compete in Rio, following a report by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigator that detailed evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russia.
The IOC has allowed the whole Russian synchronised swimming team and the Russian female water polo team to take part in the Olympics, R-Sport said.
The final Russian list had been expected to be released at a press conference by Bach on Thursday.
According to the details, the commission claimed it had found evidence that Russia’s Sports Ministry and the Center for the Training of Russian National Teams and the Federal Security Service had covered up a doping program in Russian sports.
The IOC instructed federations to bar any athletes from Russia with previous doping suspensions to their names.
Russian Federation won three judo golds at London 2012, more than any other country, and will be hopeful of more success in Brazil after 11 of their athletes got the green light. Many began moving into the Olympic Village on Thursday.
“That process is now complete and confirmation has been received from the International Olympic Committee review panel that the following 11 Russian boxers are eligible to compete at Rio 2016:”, said a statement, before listing the members of the Russian boxing team.
“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.
The International Olympic Committee has left it up to each sport’s governing body to decide whether or not to include Russian competitors following allegations of a state-sponsored doping programme.
The International Judo Federation has also confirmed that all of Russia’s qualified judoka have been cleared to participate in Rio. Only one athlete, USA -based long jumper Darya Klishina, was cleared by the IAAF because she had been regularly tested outside Russian Federation. It is unclear whether she will be competing for the Russian team or as an independent athlete.
CAS said the rule “does not respect the athletes’ right of natural justice”.
Track and field athletes have already been banned.
Zhukov told reporters that no team has been drug tested as much as Russian Federation.
“Each and every sportsperson was checked and tested, and the worldwide federations checked them and they concluded and made the decision that there were negative … a huge amount of negative test results that indicates that the huge amount of sportsmen are completely clean”.
World Archery investigated the three athletes’ eligibility to compete.
The IWF banned Russian weightlifters from competing in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio last Friday for numerous violations of anti-doping rules.
Sozykin could be banned again, however, with the final ruling down to the three-person International Olympic Committee panel hearing cases in Rio.
Speaking Tuesday, Bach called for a complete overhaul of the anti-doping system.
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For him personally, Bach said, the test for defending the decision was “to look into the eyes of all the athletes”.
