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More positive tests for Oly weightlifters
The International Weightlifting Federation [IWF] has followed athletics lead and imposed a blanket ban on the Russian weightlifting team.
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Cold War at Its “Best”!
Instead the International Olympic Committee left the decision up to the sports federations to vet individual athletes in time for the August 5 opening ceremony.
Russia’s weightlifting team has also been barred from Rio, the sport’s governing federation confirmed on Friday evening.
Global sports federations are now scrambling to vet Russian athletes as time ticks down to the start of the Games on August 5.
A final figure is expected on Saturday, with the federations of boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo still to confirm their decisions.
“They should have chose to permit all athletes with spotless reputation (to the Games, )” he said, specifically referring to Oleg Chen and David Berdzhanyan. “Nobody implicated, be it an athlete, an official, or an NF, may be accepted for entry or accreditation for the Olympic Games”.
“I can say only one thing: we have never had any state programmes for doping support”, Zhukov said.
“Earlier on Thursday, a statement from the sport’s world governing body the FIG said: “(We have) fully adhered to the criteria and process mandated by the International Olympic Committee for establishing a pool of eligible Russian athletes in gymnastics for the Rio Games.
More than 100 athletes from what was originally a 387-strong team have been barred from competing in Rio by worldwide sports federations under sanctions which most Russian athletes consider unfair.
The three cyclists withdrawn are believed to be road cyclist Sergey Shilov, Tour de France stage victor Ilnur Zakarin and Olga Zabelinskaya, a double bronze medallist on the road in 2012.
Rio de janeiro: Six weightlifting medallists from the 2012 London Olympics, including three Russians, have tested positive for doping after their samples were re-examined, the sport’s ruling body said. After last week’s IOC announcement, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) was forced to withdraw Tatiana Kashirina (+75KG) and Anastasia Romanova (69KG) due to previous doping suspensions; both athletes had served and completed their previous suspensions prior to 2016.
Reedie had led calls for a blanket ban on Russian Federation over the doping. “We shall attempt protecting our athletes”.
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Rio’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, has taken pride in the fact that 57 percent of the almost 40 billion reais (US$12.3 billion) spent on the Olympics is private money, garnered by using PPPs on a scale never before seen at a Games.