The IAAF’s conclusion: Russians who can prove they’ve been monitored by anti-doping agencies outside of their home country could be eligible to compete in Rio de Janeiro as independent athletes.
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“This is in line with the IOC’s long-held zero-tolerance policy”.
The Australian Olympic Committee and newly crowned Olympic champion Jared Tallent have welcomed the decision to continue the ban on the Russian track and field team at the Games.
Since leaving his post a year ago amid allegations of a doping cover-up, Rodchenkov has told The New York Times that he sabotaged the anti-doping system at the 2014 Sochi Olympics by swapping tainted Russian samples for clean ones at the on-site laboratory.
“No athlete will compete in Rio under a Russian flag”, he said.
All-Russia Athletics Federation general secretary Mikhail Butov says the absence of star Russians like pole vault world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva and world 110-meter champion Sergei Shubenkov will hit the International Olympic Committee in the pocket.
“We will consider it, but I’d be very, very surprised”, Coates said.
Wada said McLaren’s preliminary findings showed there had been “mandatory state-directed manipulation of laboratory analytical results operating within the Moscow-accredited laboratory from at least 2011, including the period of the IAAF World Championships in 2013”. “We do not believe that every Russian athlete cheated, and it is unfortunate and regrettable that some may pay a penalty for the serious transgressions of their federation”.
“Clean athletes who have dedicated years of their lives to training and who never sought to gain unfair advantage through doping should not be punished for the past actions of other individuals”, Mutko wrote.
The IOC have backed the IAAF’s decision, however some Russian athletes, including the race-walkers Denis Nizhegorodov and Svetlana Vasilyeva, have launched an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
President Vladimir Putin denied on Friday that Russian authorities had ever colluded in doping, and urged authorities not to use sport to push an anti-Russian agenda.
Russia, an athletics superpower, had lobbied furiously to avert the prospect of a Summer Olympics taking place without its track and field athletes.
He added: “We are looking at the compliance of the Russian anti-doping agency, which covers all sports, not just athletics”.
Nonetheless, the simple inclusion of the clause, and the hard-hitting verdict that the Russian culture of doping “has not changed” since the revelations first emerged more than 18 months ago, was enough to prevent the International Olympic Committee from tinkering with the IAAF’s decision.
There is “systematic and systemic doping rooted in many parts of [Russian] society”, Andersen said.
“So, we are now faced with critics claiming we have made an unfair decision on clean athletes in Russian Federation”.
Athletes from Russian Federation will still be allowed to compete in this summer’s Rio Paralympic Games, the International Paralympic Committee has announced. How can one say an athlete is clean? The suspension means that Russian field and track athletes are now ineligible to take part in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
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Warner claimed the Russian government could “bankroll” the legal case of pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva as she fights to be allowed to compete in Rio.
