“The FIVB is 100% committed to protecting clean athletes and will take immediate action to suspend any athletes who have infringed anti-doping rules”.
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“The ICF will continue its strong zero-tolerance stance and remove all athletes that contravene its rules in anyway”, said Simon Toulson, the International Canoe Federation’s general secretary. The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) challenged this ban by appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The IAAF is the only sport to impose a near-blanket ban on Russians, only deeming one – long jumper Darya Klishina – eligible for Rio.
TENNIS – All seven Russian tennis players have been cleared to compete in Rio by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
The fencing federation president is Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The International Modern Pentathlon Union says that Maxim Kustov and Ilya Frolov were mentioned in World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren’s report last week as having allegedly had positive tests covered up by Russian authorities.
On June 17, the IAAF Council ruled it was still early to restore the membership of ARAF in the global organization and suspended Russian athletes from all worldwide tournaments, including the 2016 Olympic Games.
Fighting back tears, two-time Olympic champion pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva tells Russian athletes going to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to defend the country’s honor.
“I hope they fix all the problems”, he said.
In revealing its judgement, World Rowing (FISA) said that those banned were “not at all considered to have participated in doping” but were not being allowed in as they “do not meet the conditions established by the IOC in their decision of 24 July 2016 for participation in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games”.
Track and field’s governing body says it received a letter Tuesday from Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko on Tuesday “requesting a review” but the IAAF responded by saying “there are no grounds for further review”.
There also have been rulings against Russian swimmers.
With Russia months away from parliamentary elections and stuck in an economic crisis, the scandal, which centers on allegations the Russian government and the FSB security service covered up doping for years, has rocked the Russian sports world and tarnished Putin’s showcase 2014 winter Olympics.
FISA yesterday banned three Russian rowers from the Games, including Ivan Podshivalov, a member of the Russian men’s four crew, for previous doping offences.
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Russian Federation initially selected 387 athletes for Rio, approximately 50 fewer than for recent summer Games, but has already lost more than a hundred in the vetting process, with boxing, cycling, golf, gymnastics, handball, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting and wrestling still to confirm their eligibility decisions.
