Executive Board panel has been selected today to make final decisions on the eligibility of all Russian athletes competing at Rio 2016.
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The three-member panel is made up of Ugur Erdener, president of World Archery and head of the IOC medical and scientific commission, Claudia Bockel of the IOC athletes commission, and Spanish IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch.
Stepanov said he had expected the IOC decision because the global body “will not support anyone who betrays doping or corruption”.
Their bans came after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last week handed the responsibility of banning Russian athletes back to the relevant sports federations.
A total of 225 Russians have so far been approved to compete in Rio, with 47 across boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo still waiting to hear from their respective federations.
“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.
According to the International Olympic Committee decision “the IFs to examine the information contained in the IP Report and for such goal seek from WADA the names of athletes and National Federations (NFs) implicated”.
An IOC program commission report released on Friday said the five sports are a blend of the traditional and emerging, youth-focused events, and all have global and local appeal.
“The final decision by the IOC Executive Board has been taken already”, said IOC spokesman Mark Adams when asked whether Stepanova’s renewed appeal would be reviewed.
The first-ever South American Olympics are set to kick off in Rio de Janeiro in August, and fanatics of the Games should take heart: Host network NBCUniversal has 356 hours of coverage planned per day. “This means that each affected athlete must be given the opportunity to rebut the applicability of collective responsibility in his or her individual case”.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has formally suspended Russia’s eight-strong weightlifting team, effectively excluding it from next month’s Rio Olympic Games, because of doping offences.
“Unfortunately, doped athletes will be competing”, said the former Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) official now living in hiding in the United States with his wife.
Besides 67 track and field athletes banned by the IAAF over revelations of a state-run doping scheme, dozens more have been told not to compete in Brazil, including swimmers, rowers, and wrestlers. “I didn’t have anything to eat, I didn’t have papers, I spoke only French and I went to the street to get food”, he said.
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The IOC executive is to meet on Saturday and Sunday to discuss the crisis.
