Two Russian swimmers filed an appeal Saturday against their exclusion from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, claiming the ban is “invalid” and “unenforceable”. More than 250 Russian athletes have been cleared to compete by the federations.
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It was the latest incident in a tense week at the Olympic Village, where Australia and several other teams complained about unfinished and dirty rooms before moving in.
“CAS works 24/7”, he said.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said Friday that 272 of the country’s original 387-strong team had been approved by worldwide sports federations to compete in Rio.
“It has not been to establish anti-doping rule violation cases against individual athletes”, McLaren said, adding that it was not his job to process doping cases against individual athletes.
“I have, however, received a considerable amount of reliable evidence, which clearly implicates individual athletes in the state-dictated program described in the report”, he said.
But the International Olympic Committee later on Saturday rejected any review of her case and had not discussed the matter at its Executive Board.
Saturday’s meeting came less than a week after the International Olympic Committee board decided not to ban Russia’s entire team from the games because of state-sponsored doping.
FINA said the swimmers were implicated in the report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren that detailed state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation across more than two dozen summer and winter sports, including swimming.
Weightlifting became the second sport after track and field to issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes over doping.
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International Weightlifting Federation fulfilled a political contract by the eleventh-hour disqualification of the Russian weightlifting team from the Summer Olympic Games in Rio, Sergei Yeryomin, the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Weightlifting Federation (FTAR) told TASS on Friday.
