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Olympics: IOC panel admits 271 Russian athletes to Rio 2016
But Probst reiterated what he said in the International Olympic Committee meeting Tuesday – the anti-doping system is broken.
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The threat of having the entire Russian delegation banned from the Olympics was seemingly a realistic possibility as details of the investigation and allegations against Russian athletes were being learned.
The CAS ruling came in the cases of Russian rowers Anastasia Karabelshivo and Ivan Podshivalov, who both received two-year doping bans in 2008, and swimmer Yulia Efimova, a bronze medallist at the 2012 London Games who served a two-year ban from 2013-15.
Many sportsmen and women were still waiting to discover if they are able to take part in Brazil on the eve of the Games, which get under way on Friday.
Aleksander Zhukov, has stated that the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 5th to 21st are to be attended by about 270 Russian athletes. “I think this is absolutely unfair”.
Last month Moscow announced the creation of an independent commission to clean up sport.
But Bach has also faced criticism from countries who feel he was too soft on Russian Federation. The court is tasked with mediating disputes involving the Olympics.
McLaren has insisted he has evidence “beyond reasonable doubt” of Russian state involvement in the doping.
A FINA spokesman declined to comment, saying the federation would issue a statement “if we have something to say”.
It helps explain why the USOC has been vocal about some parts of the anti-doping mess of the past year – saying the system is broken – but unwilling to break ranks at the highest level, including the IOC’s decision about Russian Federation. The decision goes with CAS’ previous decision against the so-called Osaka-rule, which established that the International Olympic Committee could not exclude former doping sanctioned athletes from the Olympics as this would punish them twice for the same offence.
“The Russian team may have experienced the toughest checks of the Olympics, because they had to go through multiple tests and [checks]”, Zhukov said.
In a dramatic opening day to a traditional pre-Games assembly of International Olympic Committee bosses this week in Rio, drugs commanded the spotlight. It has set up an independent commission which will include foreign anti-doping experts.
The New York Times reported, “In a dark-of-night operation, Russian antidoping experts and members of the intelligence service surreptitiously replaced urine samples tainted by performance-enhancing drugs with clean urine collected months earlier, somehow breaking into the supposedly tamper-proof bottles that are the standard at worldwide competitions, Dr. Rodchenkov said. I couldn’t be more proud and relieved”.
Smirnov, while pledging to fight doping, has denied any state responsibility in the scandal.
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Speaking Tuesday, Bach called for a complete overhaul of the anti-doping system.