‘This (ban on track and field athletes) will scare a lot of people, or send a strong message that the sport is serious, we want a clean sport.
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The episode looks at the numerous exciting Olympic sports that will feature in the 2016 Games as well as the athletes who are preparing to compete, including Golf, Rugby 7s, synchronised swimming, judo, rowing and track and field.
The IAAF first banned the Russian track and field federation, and its athletes, from global competition in November following allegations in a World Anti-Doping Agency inquiry report of state-organized doping and cover-ups.
Regardless of how the various doping-related cases turn out, Zhukov said a Russian Olympic boycott was out of the question.
Russia’s Olympic committee – and 68 of the country’s athletes – appealed but CAS has ruled the decision will remain.
Russia’s presence at the Rio Olympics would threaten the integrity of the entire Games movement, according to former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president John Fahey.
“The issue will be finally resolved by the end of this week, probably on Sunday”, Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov said Wednesday at a meeting of the ROC.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko considers the ruling politicised and believes it has no legal grounds.
“If there are those that are innocent, then it’s a big, big price to pay, to say we’re going to kick the whole nation out”.
The ban was confirmed in June, when the IAAF also said the culture of obstructing anti-doping tests in Russian Federation had not changed. She is viewed as a leader in Russia’s new generation of elite athletes, which the Russian government has promised to educate about the harms of doping in a bid to be fix its tattered image.
Meanwhile, the federations of the Olympic and Paralympic sports affected by Russia’s rampant cheating over the last few years are now discussing their options and it is understood that some were waiting for CAS to rubber-stamp the IAAF stance before following suit with their own vetting of individual Russian athletes.
“I think there are no chances”, Shlyakhtin told TASS.
Bolt spoke on Thursday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the ban enacted by athletics’ governing body, known as IAAF.
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will now take a final decision on the issue of the Russian athletes’ participation in the Rio Olympics on July 24.
They had made an appeal for being allowed to compete in Rio Olympics.
The prospect of a ban comes after the World Anti-Doping Agency accused Russia’s sports ministry of overseeing the vast and systematic doping of the country’s Olympic athletes.
The Kremlin also slammed the CAS’ verdict, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
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The sanction, handed down earlier this year by the International Association of Athletics Federations, could be extended to all of Russia’s athletic teams at this year’s Olympics, which begin August 5.
