The IOC says it “fully respects” Friday’s ruling by the IAAF to maintain its suspension of the Russians.
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Russian Federation was suspended by the IAAF from all global track and field competitions in November, and the ban was upheld Friday in a vote which appeared to have the backing of the worldwide Olympic Committee.
Coates said the focus of the meeting would be for the International Olympic Committee to set guidelines for the IAAF to allow individual Russian athletes to compete in Rio provided they had met certain conditions such as passing drug tests outside Russia.
Russia’s Ministry of Sports said it was “extremely disappointed” in the IAAF’s decision on the ban, “creating the unprecedented situation of a whole nation’s track and field athletes being banned from the Olympics”, as Reuters reported.
But the door was left slightly ajar for Russian athletes training outside the country to apply to compete as neutrals at the August 5-21 Olympics in Brazil.
“Now they want to take away my chance to compete at the Olympics, even though I haven’t done anything to cost me a place in Rio”, Vasilyeva said.
Veteran coach Nic Bideau said doping athletes have created uncertainty around sporting achievements and fans have every right to question the integrity and honesty of competitors.
In its ruling Friday, the IAAF did offer the chance to Russians who have been living overseas and subjected to a verifiable drug-testing regime to apply to compete as independent athletes.
Investigators said they believed Rodchenkov used his authority contrary to the legitimate interests of the anti-doping laboratory in order to extract personal benefits.
The suspension was placed on Russian Federation following a recommendation from the World Anti Doping Agency which stated that a report “identified intentional malicious destruction of more than 1400 samples by Moscow laboratory officials”.
Bach, a former fencer and an Olympian, has also expressed his concerns that the Rio Summer Games be a fair playing field for all athletes and the more the truths be known the higher the bar can be set for clean sport.
“No decisions will be taken” at the International Olympic Committee summit, Mutko said.
The Council of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) decided at its session in Vienna on Friday to keep in force membership’s suspension of the Russian athletics body.
Reacting with fury over the decision, Russian president Vladimir Putin called it “unfair”, although it was widely supported by athletes across the sporting world.
McLaren, who is due to deliver his full report by July 15, has also looked into doping allegations surrounding the 2013 athletics World Championships in Moscow.
In expressing its disappointment, the Russian Sports Ministry appealed to International Olympic Committee members to “consider the impact that our athletes’ exclusion will have on the dreams and the people of Russia”.
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RUSADA and the Moscow anti-doping laboratory subsequently suspended their activities, while WADA’s Board of Founders approved the decision of the agency’s independent committee that RUSADA did not comply with the Code of the global anti-doping organization.
