The McLaren Report recommended a blanket ban for Russian athletes for Rio 2016 but the IOC decided on July 24 that the worldwide federations should rule on their eligibility in their sports and has since set up an independent panel to give a final decision.
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Russia’s weightlifting and track and field teams have been barred wholesale from the Games, which open on Friday, with Russian participation in other sports still unclear.
“Obviously that is completely unacceptable that (a) the fire alarm was disabled and (b) that if it had to be, that we weren’t warned about that”, Kitty Chiller said.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport is hearing four Russian appeals against bans from the Rio Games.
“We took immediate measures to shed full light on the allegations and more actions and sanctions will follow if necessary”.
WADA acknowledged that the McLaren report had been “destabilising for a number of organisations” but said it had been published as quickly as possible.
“If this system was applied like this, it’s an attack on everything we want to represent”, he said.
It’s costing Brazil a whopping $11.5 billion to host the Olympics, with $7.1 billion made in infrastructure investments in Rio.
Swimmers who can not heed that advice stand to ingest water through their mouths and noses and therefore risk “getting violently ill”, she said. He said athletes are now happy.
England says there has been little thought put into the fact that, like most leading sporting nations, Britain’s medal prospects have been enhanced by the absence of some Russian competitors for doping offences, especially in athletics.
Bach defended the decision to reject a bid by 800-meter runner Yulia Stepanova, a former doper and whistleblower who helped expose the extent of cheating in Russian Federation, to compete in Rio as a neutral athlete, as proposed by the IAAF.
“It was not easy”, he said.
WADA’s president Craig Reedie hit back at International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach after he criticised the anti-doping body for the release of the McLaren report which came less than three weeks before the Rio opening ceremony.
President Bach also took time out for lunch with athletes in the Olympic Village Dining Hall and inaugurated the new IOC Space, an area of the village that provides information on IOC programmes that support athletes.
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Australia had to delay moving in because of concerns over the accommodation, and the Brits are taking no chances as they eye their biggest ever medal tally at an Olympics away from home. “There will be, as always, some late challenges. In the city, cases are very rare and for us it is an issue that we have more than overcome”, he said.
