The entire Russian team was facing a ban after it was revealed that many of them had taken performance enhancing drugs with the approval of the Russian sports ministry – along with evidence that Russian officials tried to cover up the allegations.
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The Russian Olympic Committee had submitted an original entry list of 389 athletes but that has been significantly reduced by 118 after worldwide federations were asked, by the IOC, to individually assess the anti-doping record of each Russian athlete.
One of the criteria (paragraph 3) was that the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) “is not allowed to enter any athlete for the Olympic Games Rio 2016 who has ever been sanctioned for doping, even if he or she has served the sanction”.
“The Russian team may have experienced the toughest checks of the Olympics, because they had to go through multiple tests and [checks]”, Zhukov said.
Track and field athletes were banned relatively early on in the process, but the International Olympic Committee left much of the decision making up to the individual governing bodies of each sport.
Russian Federation faces a blanket ban on its track and field athletes, with the exception of long distance jumper Darya Klishina, amid the suspension of Russia’s anti-doping agency.
“Starting with Rio the sanctioning of doping cases at the Olympic Games will not be done anymore via the IOC, but it will be handled independently by the Court of Arbitration for Sport”, the IOC president added.
Wrestler Viktor Lebedev and sailor Pavel Sozykin were waiting to hear the result of appeals to CAS against their exclusion from Rio.
Mr Bach says he can look into the eyes of any athlete who disagrees about Russia’s participation in the Games because he has a clear conscience.
Probst said that the IFs, which were delegated by the International Olympic Committee the responsibility under tight time restraints, have done a satisfactory job.
This supports an earlier Cas decision – known as the Osaka rule – which established athletes could not be punished twice for the same doping offence. “However, I do think about running for the post of the ARAF president”.
The Russian was also briefly suspended after testing positive for meldonium this year, but cleared in July.
“We want to tell Bach: game over, you may leave”, said Ines Geipel, a former sprinter who now heads an association to help the thousands of ex-athletes involved in the former East German state s doping programme.
“The aforementioned member of the Greek Olympic team has left the Olympic Village”.
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“AIBA has carried out an individual analysis of the anti-doping record of each of the 11 Russian boxers qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games”. “You can not answer to a violation of a law by another violation of a law”.
