On Sunday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held a meeting of its executive board to discuss possible blanket ban of Russian athletes at the Rio Olympics.
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“I imagine worldwide federations are going through their records and looking at what they have on Russian athletes and will be doing due diligence on that”.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said it would not review the Rio competition entries of Russian athletes and offered “assistance” to other sports federations in preparing individual rulings after the IOC decision.
A statement said: ‘The circumstances in which she denounced the doping practices which she had used herself do not satisfy the ethical requirements for an athlete to enter the Olympic Games’.
This multi-layered screening process must be carried out for the 387 athletes nominated for Rio by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) before the Games start on August 5.
However, individual Russian athletes had hoped they might be allowed to compete under a neutral flag if they can prove they are clean.
Yet Russian athletes will still compete in Rio.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko listens to a question during a news conference Sunday in Moscow.
The World Anti-Doping Agency stood by its recommendation to exclude Russian Federation and expressed disappointment at the IOC’s verdict.
“We were mindful of the need for justice for clean athletes”, said Coates, who is president of the Australian committee.
The committee, known by its initials I-O-C, will leave it up to the worldwide governing bodies of individual sports to decide if Russian athletes are clean and eligible to compete.
Such calls reportedly intensified after one of the Anti-Doping Agency’s lawyers (Richard McLaren) made a report about Russia’s use of an extensive doping program. Any of those implicated should not be allowed into the games, it said.
This has already been challenged, most notably in 2011 when CAS ruled against the IOC’s so-called Osaka Rule that said any athlete banned for six months or more automatically missed the next Games. Greg Rutherford, who will defend his Olympic long jump title in Rio, added: “Well, that’s the IOC board off my Xmas card list then”. According to the report, this was all conducted with the approval of Russia’s sports authorities, who had been operating a massive cover-up of drug use across a “vast majority” of winter and summer sports.
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– said the federations would have to apply their own rules if they want to ban an entire Russian team from their events in Rio, as the IAAF has already done.
