Saudi Arabia will send four female athletes to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, doubling its female participation after two women took part in the 2012 London Games for the first time.
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He said the IOC decision not to impose a blanket Russian ban, and instead have federations insure that no one implicated in the report competes in Rio, “has resulted in a deluge of requests to provide information to the IFs (international federations); Russian national federations; the Russian Olympic Committee; the Russian Paralympic Committee and individual Russian athletes”.
Two Russian swimmers have filed an appeal against their exclusion from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Of even greater significance is that the charge of double standards made by the Russian president can be maintained because even after the International Olympic Committee rejection of a blanket ban a great number of Russian athletes will remain banned while those of other countries with similar doping convictions will be permitted to participate.
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.
TAKE A NUMBER: Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren says he is facing “a deluge of requests” to provide information on individual athletes implicated in his report on state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation. Boxing, golf, gymnastics and taekwondo federations have yet to report their decisions.
“This panel will decide whether to accept or reject that final proposal”, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said.
Russia’s Minister of Sport, Vitaly Mutko, said 272 of the originally selected 387 were cleared to compete in the Games themselves (which means 115 were not).
The statement added: “The swimmers also request that the decision of the FINA bureau of 25 July 2016, declaring both of them ineligible for the Olympic Games in Rio, be set aside”. Throughout these years of constant doping control I have never had a positive test or a missed test.
“It has always been the case in the Olympics”.
Stepanov, who with his 800m runner wife Yuliya Stepanova, gave details of the state-run doping programme to a German documentary released in 2014, said efforts to clean up sport had failed.
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The former Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) official and his wife now live in a secret location in the United States.
