According to Stuff.co.nz, at least 105 athletes have been expelled from the 387-strong Russian Olympic team in the wake of the damning and devastating reports into the embattled country’s sport.
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Addressing members of Russia’s Olympic team in the Kremlin on Wednesday, Putin said a decision by global sporting organizations to ban Russian track-and-field athletes and sportspeople in everything from swimming to rowing flew in the face of common sense and legality.
Meanwhile, Russia has lost its several medal contenders to new International Olympic Council (IOC) rules, which ban the country from sending athletes who were found indulged in doping previously.
Though the International Olympic Committee declined to issue a blanket ban on Russia, it gave the international federations that govern each sport a number of strict guidelines for determining which athletes should be allowed to compete.
Mutko listed “great figures such as (pole vault champion Yelena) Isinbayeva who has an impeccable reputation” and the “new generation” of high jumper Mariya Kuchina and sprint hurdler Sergey Shubenkov as examples of athletes “who have sacrificed years of training to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio”. In this tragic stage for sports as we know, Bach looks the part of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appeasing Adolf Hitler of the Third Reich, played by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.
Modern pentathlon’s governing body said Maksim Kustov and Ilia Frolov had been implicated in the McLaren report and were being booted from Rio.
Over the past year, Russian Federation has been hit with repeated allegations of a vast doping scheme involving athletes, coaches and officials.
Putin said many Russian athletes suffered unfairly, as no specific charges were put forward against them, adding that “a blow has been delivered to the entire world sport and the Olympic Games”.
Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, CAS first opened local offices at Olympics for the Atlanta Games in 1996.
But he then said responsibility for the crimes of the past should be “personalised, and all conscientious athletes should not be responsible for violations of others”.
The International Gymnastics Federation said on Monday that it would establish a “pool of Russian eligible athletes” as soon as possible.
Six Russian rowers are still eligible to field a men’s four.
SHOOTING – The International Shooting Federation (ISSF) has cleared all 18 Russian shooters to compete at the Games.
“I think that each of them should be asked: ‘How do you deal with conflicts, how to assure the rest of the world and especially athletes from non-Russian countries that you will make, and are making, decisions in an impartial way?'” said Joseph de Pencier, chief executive of the 59-member Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations.
The unprecedented pressure on the Russian sport is enhanced as we approach the start of the Olympics. He is also vice president of the Russian Olympic Committee.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) managed to avoid splitting the Olympic movement despite pressure and adverse media coverage, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
With just 6 rowers Russian Federation can only compete with one boat in Brazil, a men’s coxless four, after qualifying 5 boats.
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“Now it is time for Rio to be part of history”, read a statement from the embassy.
