Bach said the presence of the IOC’s Olympic refugee team – comprising 10 athletes who have fled war or poverty to compete in Rio – was a riposte to a world “where selfishness is gaining ground, where certain people claim to be superior to others”.
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The news of the failed test comes just hours before the opening ceremony to an Olympics which has so far been overshadowed by doping.
The entire Russian team avoided a complete ban over allegations that its government and security services covered up widespread doping.
The Independent Panel of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled on Thursday to allow Russian swimmers Nikita Lobintsev and Vladimir Morozov to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Jack Robertson, the chief investigator for the probe of Russia’s track team, told Pro Publica that WADA president Craig Reedie “had to be literally pressured into every investigation”.
Addressing the media after the International Olympic Committee session on Thursday, Bach said that the hard question of the consequences for the athletes had to be addressed, and that a fair decision had to be made so that he could look into the eyes of the athletes. “We are grateful to the International Olympic Committee for such a decision”.
Neither the athlete nor the sport is expected to be officially announced until the B-sample is tested.
Jamaica has assembled a 63-member contingent for the Games in Rio – the largest ever delegation the country has sent to an Olympics.
Efimova’s name is now missing from the starting list for the 100 metres breaststroke, whose heats take place on Sunday, and Wednesday’s 200m, the event in which she won an Olympic bronze medal in London in 2012. The IAAF has said Klishina, who is based in the United States, can compete as a “neutral athlete”. This is destroying justice.
Meanwhile, the men’s soccer competition got underway a day before the Gmanes’ official opening. Other sports with zero Russian players: weightlifting and rowing.
“There hasn’t been anything like it in the history of Brazil”, said Mr Nuzman.
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In Group C, defending champion Mexico drew 2-2 with Germany despite twice having the lead in the northeastern city of Salvador.
