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“It should show that no matter how much pressure they put on us we are ready to fight and run further”, said Pavel Ivashko, victor of the 400m race.
The eight competition spots have been offered to other countries.
The International Olympic Committee has imposed strict criteria for athletes to prove they are clean, while individual sporting federations were tasked to clear Russian athletes.
The 19 were excluded because World Rowing said they had not been tested often enough by reliable global authorities.
All of Russia’s weightlifters were banned from the Rio Olympics late on Friday for doping for what the global federation called “extremely shocking” results that brought the sport into “disrepute”.
The three-member panel is made up of Ugur Erdener, president of World Archery and head of the IOC medical and scientific commission, Claudia Bockel of the IOC athletes commission, and Spanish IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch. She also won five silver medals, including at least one in every Olympics between 2000 and 2012.
In its decision, the IWF said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose to empower each sport with the power to ban, or not to ban, Russian athletes given the doping claims.
As the sport accounted for 28 of the manipulated drugs tests identified in McLaren’s report last week, many observers had expected worse news for Russia’s Olympic team.
Rowers Katherine Grainger and Heather Stanning also have gold medals to defend, with Grainger competing at her fourth Olympic games after success in London four years ago.
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, says the IOC is helping the local organizing committee of the Rio Games with a widely reported cash-flow problem. Boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo still must publicly confirm their decisions on what to do with the athletes in those sports.
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“As of today there are seven confirmed AAFs (adverse analytical findings) for Russian weightlifters from the combined reanalysis process of London and Beijing, while the second wave of Beijing reanalysis is not yet in a stage when the names and countries involved can be publicly disclosed”.
