More than 250 Russian athletes have been cleared to compete by the federations.
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Australian team spokesman Mike Tancred said about 100 athletes and officials were evacuated from their building in the sprawling athletes’ village.
Also attending Saturday’s inauguration ceremony were Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles, Sports Minister Leonardo Picciani, Rio de Janeiro State Gov. Francisco Dornelles, Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, and the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach.
“In the end you will see a fantastic Olympic Village and great games”, he said.
The International Weightlifting Federation said the “integrity of the weightlifting sport has been seriously damaged on multiple times and levels by the Russians”.
Banned athletes plan to sue the authorities after the Olympics are over on August 21, Mutko added.
Russian Federation plans to take legal action over this month’s WADA report accusing the country of running a state-sponsored sports doping program.
The ban is part of a large-scale doping scandal involving Russian athletes across many sports, including the track and field team.
Brazil’s federal government has severed its contract with a security firm that was supposed to operate x-ray machines during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Anyone implicated in McLaren’s report would also be excluded, the International Olympic Committee said.
The IOC has been roundly criticized by anti-doping bodies, athletes groups and Western media for not imposing a total ban on Russian Federation.
“I have, however, received a considerable amount of reliable evidence, which clearly implicates individual athletes in the state-dictated program described in the report”, he said.
The CAS has already rejected an appeal made by 67 Russian athletes against a ban ordered by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) before the IOC sanctions.
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The duo want the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn the decision of swimming’s world governing body FINA to ban them for not falling within the IOC’s new criteria on allowing Russian competitors to compete.
