Stepanova, who helped expose state-backed doping in Russian sport and has fled the country, had been ruled out when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned from Rio any Russian who had served a doping suspension.
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The IOC and the World Anti-Doping Agency clashed again Tuesday over the allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russian Federation that have rattled the Olympic movement and created chaos ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony in Rio.
Olympic leaders have let the worldwide federations that govern each sport rule on the matter case by case.
The result is death and devastation. “The cynical collateral damage approach is not what the Olympic movement stands for”.
“What is therefore not acceptable is the insinuation by some proponents of this “nuclear option” that anyone who does not share their opinion is not fighting against doping”, he added.
The IOC responded to the Russian doping scandal by placing the burden on global sports federations to determine whether Russian athletes should be allowed to compete in Rio.
Track and field athletes were banned relatively early on in the process, but the International Olympic Committee left much of the decision making up to the individual governing bodies of each sport.
CAS said the rule goes against the IOC’s stated aim “to provide the athletes with an opportunity to rebut the presumption of guilt and to recognize the right to natural justice”. An IOC-appointed panel approved the final Russian roster.
He said he had not set out to try to incriminate individual athletes.
The two global sports bodies are at odds over an investigation that revealed state-orchestrated Russian doping which left the International Olympic Committee scrambling for a response.
As athletes around the world head to Rio de Janeiro for the Summer Olympics this week, men continue to overwhelmingly outnumber women in leadership spots at worldwide organizations that govern the games, a new report shows. He said his organization could not be blamed for the timing of the McLaren report, published just two weeks before the commencement of the Rio Games, or the fact that information previously offered to WADA was not followed up.
“I think that people have come to appreciate that gender diversity in the world of sports is a business imperative”, he said.
It was a very serious report with allegations concerning the anti-doping lab in Moscow and the ministry of sport.
He said: “Athletes such as Yelena Isinbayeva and Sergey Shubenkov who have never been associated with the issue of doping and who are absolutely clean can not take part in the Olympics Games, but many sportsmen like, for example, the American runner Justin Gatlin, who have served doping bans, will”.
The federation said Thursday that four women and seven men were tested “many times” before the Olympics and are clean.
This decision was made despite calls for a blanket ban on the Russian athletes from the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Chief of sport performance Alan Ashley said he’s spent a lot of time in the athletes’ village and hasn’t heard a word about doping or Russian Federation.
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The strongest criticism came from Canadian member Dick Pound, a former president of WADA who has been outspoken in calling for a complete ban on Russian Federation – something he had previously called “the nuclear option”.
