Guided by the independent observers of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the International Olympic Committee has imposed strict eligibility criteria on Russian athletes for competing in the Rio Olympics.
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As part of the allegations of widespread and state-controlled doping in Russia made in a report by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) investigator Richard McLaren, the International Olympic Committee outlawed Russians with a doping past competing in Rio.
The CAS decision could force other federations, who were asked by the International Olympic Committee to recommend which Russians could compete, to reconsider their lists.
The IOC Review Panel announced the participation list for Russian athletes at the Games ahead of the opening ceremony on Friday.
Several global federations announced separately Thursday that they had received the final approval for Russian entries in their events, including boxing, judo, equestrian, volleyball and golf.
He has become a target for vile tweets, which Sportsmail understands are in Russian, after athletics’ governing body the IAAF, of which he is president, banned 67 of the nation’s track and field team after a state-organised doping programme was uncovered.
“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”, AIBA said in a statement.
It was the latest in a series of last-minute doping-related rulings on Russian competitors that have turned the build-up to Rio into a legal obstacle course.
“As a result, we will not file an appeal to CAS”.
The IOC said it consulted with top officials for the Games’ 28 sports to determine which athletes would be banned. The athletes’ status was put into doubt by revelations of state-sponsored doping made in the so-called McLaren report.
“However, I do think about running for the post”.
“On top of all that, Russian athletes are going through additional testing which is taking place at the Olympic Village”. As he has since the beginning of the saga, he said that while the presumption of innocence had been reversed “natural justice does not allow us to deprive human beings of the right to prove their innocence”.
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