The IWF Executive Board decided today to ban the Russian Weightlifting Federation from recommending/entering/participating with athletes and Technical Official at Rio Olympic Games 2016.
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ARCHERY – Russia’s three-member archery team has been given the all clear to take part in the Games by the World Archery Federation (WA).
Instead, the IOC ruled that they would leave it up to the individual worldwide sports federations to determine whether to approve each athlete or ban them based on past doping offences or their involvement in the scandal.
IOC President Thomas Bach on Sunday defended the committee’s decision not to ban Russia’s entire Olympic team and said the country’s doping scandal will not damage the credibility of the Rio de Janeiro.
HANDBALL – The International Handball Federation has announced that it is conducting out-of competition tests on the Russian women’s team participating at the Games.
Paris: Russia’s eight-strong Olympic Games weightlifting team has been banned from the Rio Games in the latest doping-related blow to the sporting powerhouse. “Therefore an appropriate sanction was applied in order to preserve the status of the sport”.
USA Weightlifting fully supports the fearless and strong action taken by the IWF Executive Board, both in June and July, to protect both the ethics of our sport and clean athletes within our sport, and the pathway they are building towards a clean and level playing field for our sport.
World Rowing has barred 19 Russians, most for insufficient tests.
The panel will receive independent advice from the Court of Arbitration for Sport before making its decisions.
They were among 45 athletes the International Olympic Committee said last week had been caught in a second wave of testing on samples stored from the 2008 and 2012 Games.
But adds that his rowers “are training and are ready to travel” to Rio at short notice if they win their case.
Lebedev, 28, won gold in the 2015 European Games in the 57kg class, and had been due to compete in that event in Rio.
There was good news for Russia on Friday when the Russian Taekwondo Union said it had received notification from the World Taekwondo Federation that all three of its entries could compete in Rio.
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Russian Federation will argue at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) the suspension of its weight-lifters from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko said in an interview with Match TV on Saturday. I feel sorry for those people that haven’t had that chance to hear their national anthem and be on that podium where they belong, deserve to be.
