IOC President Thomas Bach and the other 14 executive board members met on Sunday to further study the question of the participation of Russian athletes in the Rio 2016, which is set to officially open on August 5.
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The IOC also rejected the application by Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova, the 800-meter runner and former doper who helped expose the doping scandal in her homeland, to compete under a neutral flag at the games.
“I can not imagine an Olympic Games without Russian Federation, it is not possible”.
Earlier, Mikhail Butov, the Secretary General of the Russian Athletics Federation expressed his hope that the IAAF would review its decision following the International Olympic Committee ruling.
Any reallocation of quota spots or changes in competition formats will be notified to the New Zealand Olympic Committee by International Federations.
The report produced by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren described extensive doping and cover-ups across a series of summer and winter Olympic sports and particularly at the Sochi Winter Olympics hosted by Russian Federation in 2014.
“I hope that the majority of global federations will very promptly confirm the right of (Russian) sportspeople in different types of sports to take part in the Olympic Games”, Mr Mutko said.
It will now be down to individual sports’ governing bodies to decide if Russian competitors are clean and should be allowed to compete in Rio.
Russian officials and government officers have said the doping allegations are part of a Western conspiracy against their country. It insisted that “the “presumption of innocence” can not be applied to them”.
The International Olympic Committee on Sunday opted against an outright ban on Russian Federation over a state-run doping scandal in order to protect the rights of clean competitors.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) claimed the International Olympic Committee had “refused to take decisive leadership”.
Russian competitors were expected to be barred from attending next month’s Games after revelations of a state-sponsored performance-enhancing drug program, which has tainted the results of athletes from the country in numerous sports during recent years.
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However, the IOC has not lifted sanctions imposed on Russian track and field athletes, except long jumper Darya Klishina, by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The IOC also delivered a crushing blow to Stepanova’s hopes of competing in Rio.
