Russian triple jumper Yekaterina Koneva takes part in a meeting marking the departure of Russian sportsmen of CSKA (Red Army) club to the Rio Olympics in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 26, 2016.
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But that was blocked by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), leaving the 800 meter runner accusing the body of basing its decision “based on wrong and untrue statements”.
The South Africans said air conditioning, Wi-Fi and plumbing were all working well, and they also had a swimming pool.
US boxer Claressa Shields wrote on Facebook that United States of America boxing has been in Rio for five days with zero problems, and that Rio “is a lovely place”.
The final Rio medal table predicted by sports data provider Infostrada – widely regarded as the most reliable forecast of podium success by each nation at an Olympics – will be published next week and is now on course to predict that Britain has leapfrogged Russian Federation into third place as a result of the sanctions being imposed.
The head of the Russian Wrestling Federation told the R-Sport agency that two-time world champion Viktor Lebedev was ineligible because he was given a doping ban in 2006.
“We await the Russian Rowing Federation’s decision on this possibility”, FISA said, adding that issues regarding Russian participation at the Paralympics would be dealt with at a later date.
Swimming’s governing body FINA banned three Russian swimmers, with four more being withdrawn by the Russian Olympic Committee, while rowing’s worldwide federation FISA barred three Russian athletes.
The fencing federation president is Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Anastasiia Karabelshchikova and Ivan Podshivalov, who had been sanctioned for anti-doping violations in 2007/2008, were also not eligible for the Games.
The decision drew condemnation from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which said it would “inevitably lead to … lesser protection for clean athletes” and Harting has joined a chorus of criticism from Olympic competitors.
The championships ran from July 24 through August 9, with Russian Federation finishing third in the medal table.
MODERN PENTATHLON – Maksim Kutsov and Ilia Frolov have been barred from the Olympics because of prior anti-doping offences, but three other Russians, including former world champion Aleksandr Lesun, will compete at Rio.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko – a key figure in the McLaren report who has been banned from Rio – has voiced confidence that the “majority” of the country’s 387-member team would be declared eligible for Rio.
The 11 Russian competitors who had qualified for the Olympics had been tested regularly outside Russia since September past year and those tests had not revealed any evidence of doping, Vizer said.
Australia’s delegation isn’t staying in Olympic housing for now.
Russian officials say the country’s representation in worldwide sporting bodies reflects its role as a major global sporting power and the private philanthropy of some of its businessmen. A news conference is expected later in the day.
Were you surprised by the International Olympic Committee decision not to impose a blanket ban on Russian athletes from competing at Rio?
“In Russia, the Olympics has always been built up and people have grown up with Olympic sports and it’s so important for them”, she said.
But the Games As We Know Them are now filled with wide-scale, unapologetic drug cheating, as was documented in a pair of independent reports that gave an unflinching look at a top-to-bottom doping program involving Russia’s government and trickling down to hundreds of the country’s athletes.
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Each worldwide federation responsible for a sport in the summer Games was asked by the global Olympic Committee on Sunday to individually vet the anti-doping records of its Russian athletes before clearing them to compete.
