At a USOC news conference Friday, Probst echoed Bach in saying the decision had wide support among athletes, including all eight athlete representatives on the IOC.
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The Stepanovas said they believed the IOC’s focus on Yuliya’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.
“You have transformed the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro into a modern metropolis and made it even more handsome”, Bach said.
The Indian team has sent 118 sportspersons in 15 disciplines, the largest number to represent India at the Olympic Games.
The IOC recently rejected calls from anti-doping organizations to ban Russia’s entire team following a report by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigator that detailed evidence of state-directed doping and cover-ups. Bach went against that recommendation, citing the “concept of individual justice” to justify the call to hand over the decisions to the sports.
Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over her ban on running as an independent athlete at the Rio Olympics, she said Friday.
“A complicated and hard decision with no flawless solution”, he called it.
Indeed, even submitting a bid to host the Games is costly as the city of Chicago reported spending $70.6 million on its failed bid to host this year’s Summer Olympics.
Bach, who has faced criticism in recent weeks for his decision not to ban Russian Federation from the Games over a doping scandal, said the August 5-21 sporting extravaganza would send a message of hope to the watching world.
“I actually haven’t heard a single one of our athletes who is focused on this issue”, Blackmun said at the news conference.
But Ashley hasn’t spoken to all the athletes.
Pound said the IOC now faces a long campaign “to earn back its reputation for safeguarding the integrity of Olympic competition and protecting clean athletes”.
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“I don’t want to give up and accept such an unjust and snide decision on me by IAAF! You really just copped out on this'”.
