The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has given responsibility and has not sanctioned Russia as a whole country, but some sports federations. Already 40 Russian athletes are excluded from Rio 2016 following revelations of the McLaren Report, which has uncovered a system of doping: 22 rowers, seven swimmers, canoeists five, two weightlifters, two pentathletes, and a fighter. From the initial list of 387 athletes, 280 remain, as the 67 Russians who were to compete in athletics had been expelled, but can be reduced further in the coming days.
The biggest cleaning has taken place in rowing. 22 of the 28 Russians who formed the team have been excluded from the Games by the federation of the sport. Earlier this week rower Ivan Balandin, who did appear in the the McLaren Report and Anastasia Karabelshchikova, a member of the women’s eight team, and Ivan Podshivalov, four without a male helmsman because they had violated the anti-doping rules in 2007 and 2008.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) on Monday cleared seven names, including the world champion 100m breaststroke, Yulia Efimova, and the fastest in the country, Vladimir Morozov. Efimova did not appear in the report but had a doping ban and then tested positive for meldonium so it does not meet one of the requirements of FINA: not having tested positive in a doping control.
All federations have followed a similar approach. They are not only in Rio banning athletes who appear in the document, any Russian who has tested positive for doping can go to Rio.
For its part, the International Canoe Federation (ICF), which had already set aside the Romanian and Belarus team has banned the Russians: Alexander Dyachenko (champion in London 2012), Alexey Korovashkov (bronze), Andrey Kraitor, Elena Aniushina and Natalia Podolskaia, from participating in the Games in Brazil. Ilya Frolov pentathletes and Maxim Kustov (mentioned in McLaren Report); Kashirina weightlifting specialist (silver in London 2012) and Romanova; and the fighter Lebedev are the other five excluded from the Olympics.
The International Sailing Federation has approved six of the seven Russians as Rio Games representatives. The only name left out is Pavel Sozykin. The Federations of tennis, archery, shooting and judo have confirmed all their athletes for the Olympics.
