Asked how he would respond to critics accusing the IOC of treating Russian Federation too softly, Bach said: “read the decision”, stressing that the ROC was being treated more harshly than every other national Olympic committee.
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“I hope that the majority of global federations will very promptly confirm the right of [Russian] sportspeople in different types of sports to take part in the Olympic Games”, Mr Mutko said.
The International Olympic Committee said on Sunday it will not impose a blanket ban on Russian Federation for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
It had also ordered the immediate re-testing of all Russian athletes from the Sochi Olympics, as well as a full inquiry into the alleged doping cover-ups, instructing all worldwide winter sports federations to halt preparations for major events in Russia.
Sean Ingle’s report to follow soon … Bach says that the International Olympic Committee is protecting clean athletes in its action. These decisions will then be reviewed by an arbiter from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.The punishment for the culprits has not been decided yet but it can impact their careers in a negative way.
The global anti-doping agency said it stood by its earlier recommendation that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decline all entries for the Rio Games submitted by the Russian Olympic Committee. “In this way, we protect these clean athletes because of the high criteria we set to for all the Russian athletes”.
The IOC says the federations have the authority, under their own rules, to exclude Russian teams as a whole from their sports.
It insisted that “the “presumption of innocence” can not be applied to them”.
13 November 2015: IAAF provisionally suspends Russia’s athletics federation from worldwide competition.
But Wada said the decision to give individual sports federations primary responsibility for determining every Russian athlete’s eligibility for Rio was a recipe for confusion. It also set out eligibility criteria for the various worldwide federations of Olympic sports.
An IOC ethics commission also ruled that 800m runner Yuliya Stepanova, who turned whistleblower on doping in Russian athletics, could not go to Rio even as a neutral.
Any Russians who has served a doping ban will not be eligible for the start of next month’s Olympics.
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It also ordered the immediate re-testing of all Russian athletes from the Sochi Olympics.
