Bach said all global sports federations had to be informed before the list agreed by a three-member IOC panel could be released.
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Russia’s doping scandal, which centres on allegations that the Russian government and FSB security service systematically covered up widespread cheating in sport, has already cost the country’s track-and-field athletes and weightlifters their place at the Rio Games.
“The leadership of the [Greek] Olympic team in Rio announces the positive first sample of a member of the team during drugs testing conducted in early July in Athens”, said the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) in a statement.
“The IOC Decision deprives the Russian athletes of the presumption of innocence and rather establishes a presumption of guilt”, CAS said in a news release.
CAS rejected the athletes’ appeal to be granted direct entry into the games, saying it was now up to the global rowing and swimming federations to decide whether to let them in or not. In 2011, it annulled the IOC’s so-called “Osaka rule”, which would have barred any athlete who had received a serious doping punishment from the subsequent Olympics.
Efimova, the reigning world champion in the 100m breast, was initially banned along with six other Russian swimmers who either had positive tests on their record or were named in an investigation of the massive, state-sanctioned doping scheme.
Another five athletes – three track cyclists, a wrestler and a canoeist – will know by Friday if they can take part in the Rio Olympic Games. “We had to respect basic principles of natural law”.
Meanwhile, the men’s soccer competition got underway a day before the Gmanes’ official opening.
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In the jungle city of Manaus, Colombia and Sweden drew 2-2 in Group B.
