The individuals, national Olympic committees and sports federations have been privately informed, however, the IOC added.
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The court, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, upheld the “validity” of the IAAF ban, saying a country whose national federation is suspended is ineligible from entering global competitions, including the Olympics.
Mo Farah insists all he wants is to be able to compete against clean athletes as the spectre of doping threatens to overshadow the Rio Olympics.
Another 30 from Beijing 2008 have also been caught including 23 MEDALLISTS.
The IAAF praised the decision, saying: “Today’s judgment has created a level playing field for athletes”. “The CAS award upholds the rights of the IAAF to use its rules for the protection of the sport, to protect clean athletes and support the credibility and integrity of competition”.
IAAF President Sebastian Coe, who has declared the ban is crucial to protecting the integrity of the competition, said it was “not a day for triumphant statements”.
“I’m good, I’m feeling good, been training good now, I’m happy with where I am”, the 29-year-old said.
The IOC is facing global pressure to act tough on Russian Federation and ban the entire team over bombshell revelations of a state-run doping system that has seen the country cheat its way to victory.
Russia’s track-and-field athletes have already been banned by the sport’s world governing body – the IAAF – a decision backed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Its executive board is holding its second emergency meeting of the week on Sunday and has promised to make a final decision about a complete ban for the Russian team by Wednesday.
Italy’s 2008 Olympic 50km race walk champion Alex Schwazer will retire after the Rio Olympics if his provisional doping ban is lifted on appeal because he is sickened by the world of athletics, said his coach Sandro Donati.
On the subject of whether the International Olympic Committee would issue a blanket ban for entire team, Pinsent, who chaired the IOC’s athletes commission between 2001-04, said it had got to the point “where any other option will be a nonsense”.
As it stands, Russia’s once-vaunted track team could be reduced to just a single athlete at the Rio Olympics.
Russian Federation was suspended from track and field events by the IAAF on November 2015.
Many in the country believe that Russian Federation has been the victim of a political witch-hunt, while it has been pointed out that clean athletes will be the collateral damage of any collective ban.
That means the debate over the definition of the IAAF’s “neutral athlete” will continue between those who consider it to be a competitor in white kit, under an International Olympic Committee flag, and those who still believe they can be part of a Russian delegation.
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The IAAF did rule that athletes processed outside of the Russian system could be allowed to compete – with Florida based long jumper Darya Klishina named so far.
