Athletes from China’s Olympic team were met with flag-waving supporters at Rio de Janeiro’s airport on Thursday ahead of next week’s Olympic Games.
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Because of this, she underlined that World Health Organization has advised expecting mothers or those who plan to conceive to abstain from travelling to places at risk of Zika transmission, and urged their husbands or partners, who can not avoid making the trip, to undergo tests upon their return.
The 34-year-old Isinbayeva has previously said she plans to retire if she does not go to the Olympics, but did not comment on that in her post.
“My conscience is clean”, said long jumper Vasily Kopeikin, another athlete barred from Rio. “Time will show those people who suspended us”.
Irina Maksimova, a librarian, said she believed the doping allegations were part of a plot to take away the 2018 World Cup from Russian Federation.
But International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach, who arrived in Rio on Wednesday, said that “the remaining ones will be solved in the next 24 or 48 hours”.
The IWF cull last night took the number of Russians expelled from the Games to at least 123, with athletics, rowing, swimming, cycling canoeing, sailing, wrestling and modern pentathlon the other events in which bans have been imposed. These rulings must still be ratified by CAS.
The International Olympic Committee has set up a special unit to monitor any illegal betting, match-fixing or other illegal activity during the games in Rio de Janeiro.
Anatoly Terekhov, head of the Russian Taekwondo Union, says all Russians entered for taekwondo in Rio have been approved by the World Taekwondo Federation, in comments to Russian agency R-Sport.
Russian Federation nominated eight weightlifters to compete in Rio but Tatiana Kashirina, who won a silver medal at the London Olympics in the women’s +75kg category, and Anastasiia Romanova were withdrawn due to previous anti-doping rule violations.
Putin last week called for the creation of a new state-backed anti-doping commission to draw up future strategy.
Smirnov told local media Thursday that the new commission would be independent of the government, despite containing several senior figures with links to the Kremlin.
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Kirill Sveshnikov and Dmitry Sokolov are reportedly two of the three names mentioned in Dr Richard McLaren’s report into systematic doping among Russian athletes. “We will use tests that are validated by WADA and for which the reference material is available”, Budgett said.
