The IWF has offered Russia’s spots to athletes from 8 different countries.
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Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva – who recently started a public campaign in order to have her ban from the Olympics lifted but was later denied – addressed the crowd before the meet.
Russian Federation had originally entered 8 athletes into the Olympic Games.
CAS said in a statement on Saturday: “The ad hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has registered its first procedures”.
Late last month the IAAF announced that it had amended the organisation’s regulations in order to allow field and track athletes from Russian Federation to submit individual applications for worldwide tournaments.
A ban against freestyle wrestler Viktor Lebedev, a former two-time world champion, and three cyclists announced Thursday takes the number of Russian athletes suspended from Rio to 112. Two of those nominations, Ms. Tatiana Kashirina’s and Ms. Anastasiia Romanova, were withdrawn due to prior anti-doping rule violations.
Four of these were listed in the McLaren Report as beneficiaries of the “Disappearing Positive Methodology System” in which samples were illegally switched for clean ones.
Stepanova’s hopes of running at the Olympics, which start next week, as an independent athlete where dashed when the International Olympic Committee ruled earlier this month that no Russian with a doping background could take part.
“What we have now, the CAS is open 24 hours a day, I think that today or tomorrow we will support athletes, including by an appeal”.
CBC’s q sports panel discussed the International Olympic Committee decision, coming to a near unanimous agreement that the International Olympic Committee made the wrong choice.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said a three-member panel will make the “final decision” on which Russian athletes can compete in the Rio Olympics, set to begin in less than a week. The IOC is still in shock over attacks for not ordering a blanket ban on Russian athletes following an inquiry by Canadian lawyer Richard McLean for the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada). Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said that 272 of the country’s athletes had been approved by global sports federations, out of an original team of 387, adding that the number could rise.
Anatoly Terekhov, head of the Russian Taekwondo Union, says all Russians entered for taekwondo in Rio have been approved by the World Taekwondo Federation, in comments to Russian agency R-Sport.
Most federations have not excluded Russians on the basis of a lack of testing, but rowing and weightlifting are the exceptions.
“The hurdles that those Russian athletes who have been cleared to compete, the hurdles that they had to jump to be here are very strict and very high”.
“We will absolutely not experiment at the Olympic Games”.
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They were among seven Russians banned by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) last week after the order was published.
