The IWF described the doping results as “extremely shocking and disappointing”.
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“This panel will decide whether to accept or reject that final proposal”, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said. It is true that scores of Russian athletes have been banned from Rio, including the entire athletics team, and sports federations from rowing to sailing to swimming have taken action against some Russian competitors.
Brothers Bob and Mike Bryan, the 2012 London Games men’s doubles champions, announced Saturday on Facebook that they have withdrawn from the tennis competition at the Rio Olympics and cited health as their chief concern.
The IOC has been roundly criticized by anti-doping bodies, athletes groups and Western media for not imposing a total ban on Russian Federation. The International Olympic Committee resisted a blanket ban on Russia following the most recent explosive report by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who detailed an elaborate doping scheme in Russian sports orchestrated by the government.
“The swimmers also request that the decision of the FINA bureau of July 25 2016, declaring both of them ineligible for the Olympic Games in Rio, be set aside”.
A total of 225 Russians have so far been approved to compete in Rio, with 47 across boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo still waiting to hear from their respective federations. “I think the general feeling is that it is appreciated that, on the one hand, we are sanctioning a (doping) system, but on the other hand we have given athletes who were not part of the system the opportunity to demonstrate this and then to be allowed to take part in the Olympic Games”. She was one of Syria’s top freestylers, and had been representing her country in various worldwide events, until the war in Syria began.
He was joined on the dais by fellow Syrian refugee and swimmer Yusra Mardini, who is sponsored by Germany, as well as judokas Popole Misenga and Yolande Mabika who previously competed for the Democratic Republic of Congo but together sought asylum in Brazil during the 2013 world cup hosted in Rio de Janeiro.
“The athletes’ village was ready”.
He said his office was informed of the problems only last week, despite a series of weekly meetings between his staff and the organising committee.
More than 600 plumbers have been working at the village this week to make repairs.
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The Rio Games start on August 5 and run through to August 21.
