“Following the decision made today by the IOC to allow individual sporting governing bodies to decide if Russian competitors can take part in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the IAAF – as the first sports federation to have been through this course of action – is ready to offer assistance to other worldwide federations going through this process”, the statement read.
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The International Olympic Committee’s decision to reject calls to ban all Russian competitors from the Rio Olympics could lead to “lesser protection for clean athletes”, the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said on Sunday.
In recognition of her bravery as a whistleblower, and her contributions to the fight against doping, the IOC Executive Board is inviting Ms. Stepanova as a guest to the Rio games and suggesting that she could join a National Olympic Committee in the future.
“It has ignored the calls of clean athletes, a multitude of athlete organisations, and of leading National Anti-Doping Organisations, to do the right thing by excluding Russian Federation from the Rio Olympic Games”, he added.
The Russian Olympic team will avoid a full ban from the Summer Games in Rio starting next month despite revelations of a state-run doping system that stretches back to 2011.
Russian officials and athletes mentioned in the independent report by Richard McLaren, which was commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and found the Russian Sports Ministry oversaw a vast program to manipulate doping test results, won’t be accredited for Rio, the International Olympic Committee said.
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Any Russian who has served a doping ban will not be eligible for next month’s Olympics.
“Unless they have a track record of clean, global testing outside of Russian Federation then they’re out”.
Russian Federation will be represented in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
– The absence of a positive national anti-doping test can not be considered sufficient by the IFs.
Russia Minister For Sport Vitaly Mutko said he is sure most of the athletes meet the IOC’s conditions.
Stanley reiterated the NZOC’s support of the IOC’s measures that “balanced individual justice with collective responsibility” when he fronted a media call on Monday.
All of Russia’s track and field athletes have already been banned by that sport’s governing body, a decision that was upheld on Thursday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
“We the organisers will welcome all athletes who come here to compete”, Nuzman added.
“It is fair to ban from the Olympics those Russian athletes who have been sanctioned for doping abuses”, he told journalists.
Since then a series of worldwide sports federations, anti-doping agencies and athletes have called for a blanket ban of all sports at Rio, though some have said they are against punishing innocent athletes.
“They set a very good example and I thought the International Olympic Committee, looking at the bigger picture, would then have banned the whole Russian team”, Davies told BBC Wales Sport.
Also, Sports Ministry officials involved in the alleged state-sponsored doping scandal will not be accredited for Rio.
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Instead they have left the decisions up to individual sports through their worldwide federations. “The IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) has advanced impracticable requirements”, he said.
