An International Triathlon Union (ITU) statement said: “None of the six Russian triathletes (three men, three women) that have qualified for 2016 Olympics are included in the McLaren report, nor have any of them served suspensions or bans for failed doping tests”.
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WADA’s investigation found that the Russian government was complicit in an elaborate state-sponsored doping program spanning four years, from 2011 to 2015. McLaren’s extended mandate reveals any potential anti-doping rule violation or wrongdoing, the ITTF will take immediate action to investigate and take sanction within the framework of the World Anti-Doping Code and the ITTF’s applicable regulations.
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To date, responses from other sports’ individual federations to the International Olympic Committee ruling has been mixed, with several Russian swimmers, canoeists and rowers subject to bans.
Peterson says he’s happy with the stance the world governing body took in banning four of the five Russian crews but not in allowing them to cobble together a fifth crew.
The IAAF on Wednesday reaffirmed that only one Russian athlete – US-based long jumper Darya Klishina – was eligible to compete because she lives and trains outside the Russian system.
The head of Russia s trampolining federation, Nikolai Makarov, told TASS news agency that he had received “verbal permission” from the sport s global authorities for the team to take part.
“In a training camp in Portugal, our athletes simply lived under false names”, said Stepanova, “They have taken banned substances, they undertook a course of doping, and to ensure that foreign control officers did not come and test them, they provided false names”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the ban amounts to discrimination and that it goes “beyond the legal sphere, it goes beyond common sense”.
“It s obvious that the absence of Russian competitors – leaders in many disciplines – markedly lowers, and will lower the intensity of the fight and that means the spectacle at the upcoming events”, Putin said in a speech.
The number of Russian athletes banned since Sunday now stands at 41, in addition to the 67 track and field athletes already banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Over 100 Russian athletes are set to fly out to Brazil Thursday, with at least half of them in the dark regarding their status at the start of the day. Stepanov is married to former Russian middle-distance runner Yuliya Stepanova, who backed up the claims.
Stepanova, who fled Russian Federation and is reviled by many back home, is now making a last-gasp appeal against her International Olympic Committee ban. One of the swimmers, Yulia Efimova, said this week she would appeal her ban.
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Bach fired back that the decision to leave individual sports federations to decide which Russians could compete “respects the right of every clean athlete around the world”, noting that would-be Russian Olympians must clear “the highest hurdles” to make the Games. In his native Germany, IOC President Thomas Bach is facing increasing criticism for failing to impose a complete ban on Russia’s team.
