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Putin also wished the best performance to the Russian Olympic team members. “We can not and will not accept what in fact is pure discrimination”.
Athletics: The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the total ban of the Russian track and field team from the Rio Games last week.
Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko wrote to the IAAF Monday to get the ban overturned.
“It is an attempt to apply the rules which unfortunately dominate in geopolitics to the sporting world”, he said, hitting out at what he called “short-sighted political schemers”.
The IAAF is the only sport to impose a near-blanket ban on Russians, only deeming one – long jumper Darya Klishina – eligible for Rio.
“The current situation does not only go beyond the legal sphere, it goes beyond common sense”, Putin said.
Those barred from competing, Putin says, are victims of “double standards” and a campaign against Russian sports.
Over the course of our build-up to the opening ceremony on Aug 5, we will feature an athlete from each sport, every one of them with a unique story to tell as they set off for an Olympic adventure.
Gymnastics: The FIG has cleared the entire Russian gymnastics team consisting of 21 athletes.
The 16 Russian fencers who qualified for Rio will all be allowed to compete as will the four alternates.
The IFF says 197 tests taken from Russian athletes in 35 countries over the last two years were all negative.
Four positive results in Russian triathlon were also covered up, according to McLaren. A recent report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren alleged a jaw-dropping level of state-sponsored doping and coverups of hundreds of failed drug tests.
Shubenkov, Kuchina, and Ukhov-three of the athletes competing in Thursday’s special tournament in Moscow-were among 68 athletes of the track-and-field program who appealed the June ban, but were rejected.
206: Number of countries sending athletes to compete in Rio. Individual decisions on Russian athletes have been referred to relevant global federations.
The IOC executive committee decided not to ban the Russian team.
Germany s Olympic discus champion Robert Harting verbally attacked IOC president Thomas Bach, calling his compatriot “part of the doping system, not the anti-doping system”.
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The Australian delegation gave the mayor a tiny “boxing kangaroo” doll as the sign of a truce. IWF stated that if the testing of “B” samples proved to confirm that if any country had three or more violations in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic re-testing program, the country would be suspended from worldwide competition for one year, thus being excluded from Rio alongside the already suspended Bulgaria.
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The Olympics formally begin with the opening ceremony on August 5, and the track program starts August 12. Attention now shifts to dozens of venues, which will be filling up in the next few days with thousands of athletes hoping to practice.
