“The FISA executive committee reviewed each entered Russian rower in order to assess the adequacy and reliability of their “international” testing (the analysis of the samples performed at a WADA accredited lab other than Moscow), taking into account the specificities of the sport of rowing”, FISA explained.
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Three Russian rowers have also been excluded.
None of the 28 rowers entered by Russian Federation had been found to have tested positive in the past five years, but doubts over the reliability of Wada’s Moscow laboratory raised by the McLaren report have led Fisa to exclude 19 more of them from the Olympics on Wednesday.
The International Olympic Committee on Sunday restricted athletes with previous doping bans from representing Russian Federation.
On Tuesday, the federation said that 17 entered rowers and two of the coxes did not meet conditions to take part but six Russian rowers were cleared for Rio.
“Yuliya asked to compete in Rio not to receive an extraordinary benefit but to simply restore her to the position she would have been in had she never exposed Russia’s systemic doping program”.
“As the report said it involved 20 summer Olympic sports, this system of cover ups, so yes there will be athletes who have used doping from Russian Federation in Rio”.
The country’s Olympic team leader says there are electrical and plumbing problems in the complex.
Judo joins tennis as sports that have made a decision to allow Russian competitors to participate.
Their evidence led to a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which uncovered widespread doping in Russian athletics, and was followed by the McLaren report.
“I call for a push to match efforts to win medals on the playing fields with work to silence guns on the battlefields”, Mr Ban said.
Prass was one of the players older than 23 selected for Brazil’s squad, under Olympic soccer rules.
MODERN PENTATHLON – Maksim Kutsov and Ilia Frolov have been barred from the Olympics because of prior anti-doping offences, but three other Russians, including former world champion Aleksandr Lesun, will compete at Rio.
World Rowing says in a statement that Russian rowers Ivan Podshivalov and Anastasia Korobelshchikova were declared ineligible for the Olympics under a new International Olympic Committee rule because they had previously served doping bans. Latvian athlete Ruslan Nakonechny replaces Kustov in the men’s event.
Seven more Russian athletes were banned from competing at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday after being implicated in the damning World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report into state-sponsored doping and cover-ups in the country.
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The International Canoe Federation said that the five were mentioned in World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren’s report last week, which specifically detailed how Russian state officials allegedly intervened to cover up hundreds of failed drug tests.
