“The National Badminton Federation of Russia has received a letter from BWF Secretary-General Thomas Lund who said that the BWF had sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee confirming the participation of all Russian athletes selected for the Olympics in the 2016 Olympic Games”, the National Badminton Federation of Russia said.
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The International Olympic Committee has asked governing bodies to ban Russians either implicated in a recent report into doping, or previously sanctioned.
Swimming’s governing body FINA banned three Russian swimmers, with four more being withdrawn by the Russian Olympic Committee, while rowing’s global federation FISA barred three Russian athletes.
In revealing its judgement, World Rowing (FISA) said that those banned were “not at all considered to have participated in doping” but were not being allowed in as they “do not meet the conditions established by the IOC in their decision of 24 July 2016 for participation in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games”.
And even better news for Russia’s beleaguered sports chiefs came when the International Shooting Sport Federation approved all 18 of Russia’s squad.
Dyachenko won gold in the men’s double kayak 200 meters at the 2012 Olympics in London.
Some global federations have banned Russians from competing altogether, some have issued a partial ban, while others have cleared all Russian athletes to take part.
The head of the Russian Wrestling Federation told the R-Sport agency that two-time world champion Viktor Lebedev was ineligible because he was given a doping ban in 2006.
“We have taken swift action and removed all offending athletes where doping evidence exists”.
The UIPM, which approved Russia’s other three entries, says it “is fully committed in the fight against doping”.
FISA yesterday banned three Russian rowers from the Games, including Ivan Podshivalov, a member of the Russian men’s four crew, for previous doping offences.
The Lausanne, Switzerland based CAS was not immediately available to comment on when an appeal would be heard, but the court and federations appear likely face a race against the clock to manage a flurry of Russia doping cases before the opening ceremony.
Pavel Sozykin, who was due to compete in the 470 class, was named in a report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren as an alleged beneficiary of the cover-up scheme, World Sailing said.
Later revelations of an even broader state-backed doping program in an array of sports had the International Olympic Committee under pressure to ban Russian Federation entirely from the Games – a move they declined to take.
Canoeing is the fourth sport to ban a number of Russian athletes from Rio, following athletics, which barred the entire Russian track and field team last month with the exception of those who can prove their innocence.
World Rowing says 22 of 28 Russian rowers and coxswains have been banned from the 2016 Olympics.
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Russian Federation initially selected 387 athletes for Rio, approximately 50 fewer than recent summer Games’, but has already lost nearly 90 of those in the individual vetting process that each sport is now undertaking.
