It is expected that every third Russian winner of the Olympic licenses will miss the upcoming Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Even before Sunday’s meeting of the International Olympic Committee, decided not to suspend Russia from the Olympics, it became known about the disqualification of 67 Russian athletes for doping populateusers system in the Russian Federation in athletics.
As you know, the IOC decided international sports Federation to validate the list of Russian athletes who qualified for the Olympic games. As it turned out, not all conform to strict selection criteria.
Doping history has eliminated nearly two dozen athletes, including four-time world champion swimmer Julia Yefimov. Some athletes have become hostages of the suspension – exclusion from the Olympics Anastasia Korabelshikov will not allow Rio to play women’s eight in rowing.
A huge number of Russian athletes go to the Olympics on fire Richard McLaren, the report of which almost led to a complete suspension of Russian national team. Serious losses suffered swimmers, rowers, canoeists and representatives of the modern pentathlon.
Thus, from the Olympics already removed hundreds of Russian athletes, but this list is far from final. Many of the international Federation has not yet announced its decision on Russian problem.
