Most will be at sporting venues and tourist landmarks.
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According to the report, the IWF will distribute the eight places reserved for Russian athletes elsewhere.
The International Olympic Committee is looking at a new test for gene doping, although it won’t be used at the Rio de Janeiro Games, the IOC’s medical and scientific director said.
Says Isinbayeva: “The miracle didn’t happen”.
“Many details have not been taken into consideration regarding the banning of Russian athletes from the Olympics based on McLarens list”.
The federation chose to organise the three-hour competition after the Court of Arbitration for Sport last week rejected athletes’ appeals against the IAAF ban.
“The integrity of the weightlifting sport has been seriously damaged on multiple times and levels by the Russians”, the IWF wrote. Testing in Russian Federation does not count under International Olympic Committee rules because of the repeated allegations made against Russia’s drug testing agency and national lab, both of which have been suspended.
“I’ve won medals because people have been banned and I know some people after the recent tests have been moved from fourth to gold”.
The McLaren report found that the Moscow laboratory at the centre of Russia’s state-sponsored doping programme hid 117 positive weightlifting tests over a four-year period – a figure second only to track and field.
It named Russian Federation, along with Kazakhstan and Belarus, but said it would await confirmation of the positive tests from the International Olympic Committee before implementing the suspension.
Russia’s largest losses are in track and field, with 67 of 68 athletes barred, while the situation remains unclear in some sports, notably weightlifting and boxing.
“I’ll be encouraging all our team members in all our sports to focus on their own performance”.
IOC President Thomas Bach announced on Sunday that Russian athletes, with the exception of field and track competitors, were allowed to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics based on individual approval of each respective worldwide sports federation or association.
Russian Federation says its taekwondo team has been approved to compete at the Rio Olympics against the backdrop of the country’s doping scandal.
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He said the process would be completed by Friday, the day the Games open.
