DOPING SCANDAL:The International Weightlifting Federation has banned Russian competitors from taking part in the Rio Olympics after drug test shows a doping result

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According to media report, Russian athletes avoided a blanket ban from the Games but the IWF has taken action after 'extremely shocking and disappointing' doping results from Russian weightlifters.

Weightlifting has become the first sport to impose an outright ban on Russian competitors in Rio.
"The integrity of the weightlifting sport has been seriously damaged on multiple times and levels by the Russians," the IWF said in a statement.
"Therefore an appropriate sanction was applied in order to preserve the status of the sport".
 The eight spots allocated to Russian weightlifters have been offered to other countries.
This comes after the IOC declared that no Russian athlete “who has ever been sanctioned for doping” was eligible for the Games earlier this week.
The decision was roundly criticised by a number of high-profile British Olympians, who accused the governing body of tip-toeing around the decision.
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Four-time Olympic champion Sir Matthew Pinsent accused Games chiefs of a failure of leadership, raging: “So the IOC have hospital passed that all to the IF’s. ‘No YOU decide. We don’t want to’. What a cop out.”

Fellow rowing great James Cracknell took up the theme, as sports such as tennis, judo and cycling quickly indicated they would welcome Russian competitors to Brazil.
“Bottled it,” tweeted the two-time Olympic champion. “IOC passing the buck to individual federations. Bad day.”

Former swimming star Sharron Davies added: “I feel so disappointed in the IOC again, shows it’s more about the money than the sport! Shame on them…”
Reigning Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford said simply: “Well, that’s the IOC board off my xmas card list then.”

US anti-doping boss Travis Tygart accused the IOC of deterring future whistleblowers and of refusing to take decisive leadership and blasted their non-decision a “a significant blow to the rights of clean athletes’’.

IOC President Thomas Bach countered that collective responsibility had to be balanced against the rights of clean athletes.
Chaos now reigns with individual sports facing a seemingly impossible race against time to determine which Russians are “demonstrably clean”.


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