Only four Russian rowers are allowed to compete in 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, President of the Russian Rowing Federation Veniamin But told TASS on Friday.
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USA runner Allyson Felix says she expects to be close to 100 percent when 400-meter qualifying begins on August 13.
Two of the three Russian cyclists barred from attending the Olympic Games by the UCI after featuring in a damning doping report have been named by their coach.
“Unfortunately they didn’t make an exception for me”, she wrote on Instagram. ‘The miracle didn’t happen’.
The IWF in highlighting “the extremely shocking and disappointing statistics regarding the Russian weightlifters” added that seven dope tests being re-examined from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics have returned positive results. She also won five silver medals, including at least one in every Olympics between 2000 and 2012.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and Olympic medallist Olga Kaniskina support athletes during a track and field meet called “Stars of 2016” in Moscow on July 28, 2016.
Around 150 competitors took part at the Znamensky Brothers stadium, a 7,500-capacity arena usually reserved for the Moscow track and field championships.
While numerous 150 competitors were not on the banned anti-doping list, 67 of them were after a Wada report opened the floodgates on a seemingly endless stream of damaging reports into state-sponsored doping.
Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko on Friday told local media that 272 of the country’s athletes had been approved by worldwide sports federations, out of an original team of 387, adding that the number could rise.
Last week, the International Olympic Committee ruled that the governing body of each individual sport would decide whether or not to allow Russian athletes to perform following allegations of state-sponsored doping in the country.
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Anatoly Terekhov, head of the Russian Taekwondo Union, says all Russians entered for taekwondo in Rio have been approved by the World Taekwondo Federation, in comments to Russian agency R-Sport.
