We continue to bring you the latest developments after the International Olympic Committee chose not to ban Russia’s entire team from the Rio Olympics over doping allegations.
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The Korean Olympic Committee said the 15-year-old will return to South Korea for surgery, and that Lee Eun-ju, who finished second in last month’s national trials, will take her spot in the Olympic artistic gymnastics competition.
More than 100 Russian athletes have been barred from the games so far – including the track and field team banned by the IAAF and more than 30 athletes excluded by other federations since the release of McLaren’s report.
“We would like to highlight the extremely shocking and disappointing statistics regarding the Russian weightlifters”, read a statement from the International Weightlifting Federation.
“Under these exceptional circumstances, Russian athletes in any of the 28 Olympic summer sports have to assume the consequences of what amounts to a collective responsibility in order to protect the credibility of the Olympic competitions, and the “presumption of innocence” can not be applied to them”.
An appeal is being prepared against World Rowings decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Russian Rowing Federation head Veniamin But told The Associated Press.
Morozov, a member of the 4x100m freestyle relay team that took bronze at the 2012 London Games, and Lobintsev, who took silver in the 4x200m freestyle team in Beijing in 2008 and bronze in the 4x100m freestyle in London, have taken their action against the International Olympic Committee and FINA.
However, only one track and field athlete, long jumper Darya Klishina, has been given the green light with the country essentially suspended from the Games in that sport. But it ordered all individual sports federations to apply new criteria to decide which athletes could be allowed to compete.
Geno Auriemma started the five UConn alums much to the delight of the CT fans who turned out in force to send off the Americans to the Rio Olympics next week.
They failed doping test. Russian Federation recently avoided a blanket ban on all athletes from the event.
A report by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said there had been state-run doping, aided by the Russian secret service, at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
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The IOC invited the couple to Rio but also ruled that Stepanova could not take part in the Games despite her role in lifting the lid on the use of banned substances. Russia’s Minister of Sport, Vitaly Mutko, said 272 of the originally selected 387 were cleared to compete in the Games themselves (which means 115 were not).
