“A line under the matter of Russian track and field athletes’ participation in the Olympic Games has been drawn”.
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“We were mindful of the need for justice for clean athletes”, said Coates, who is president of the Australian committee.
The decision about whether individual Russian athletes will be eligible to compete is being left to each sport’s governing body.
The exemption was granted as it was her allegations which led to the current suspension of Russian athletes from worldwide competition following the scandal over doping in their country. The International Association of Athletics Federations had originally approved her to compete under a neutral flag, but the IOC overturned that decision Sunday because she had been sanctioned for doping in the past.
“I really want to believe in Fina”, Rudd told BBC Sport. There are so many other countries.
OLYMPIC leaders have stopped short of imposing a complete ban on Russia from the Rio de Janeiro Games, assigning individual global sports federations the responsibility to decide which athletes should be cleared to compete.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said the International Olympic Committee had failed to show leadership with its decision.
“I maintain the view that any actions less than what WADA has recommended at this critical point in time risks Rio being overshadowed by a contagious suspicion of compromised integrity and damaging the reputation of the Olympic movement”, she said.
Efimova is barred after the International Olympic Committee said Russian athletes with previous doping bans could not compete.
“The McLaren Report exposed, beyond a reasonable doubt, a state-run doping program in Russian Federation that seriously undermines the principles of clean sport embodied within the World Anti-Doping Code”, Reedie added.
Fourteen national anti-doping agencies – including the US, Germany and Japan – as well as several national Olympic committees had demanded Russia’s exclusion from Rio.
“They’re going to have to consider all the reasons taken into account. In this way we protect these clean athletes”, Bach said.
Russia will be allowed to compete at next month’s Rio Olympics after the event’s governing body made the shock decision not to issue a blanket ban on Russian competitors.
“We have set the bar to the limit by establishing strict criteria every Russian athlete will have to fulfil”. “The “presumption of innocence” can not be applied to them”. The ITF also released a statement to announce their decision.
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The IOC will only accept entry to Rio 2016 from Russian athletes who have been approved by the relevant worldwide federation and then by an arbitrator from the Court of Arbitration for sport.
