British media : the whole Russian team excluded from the Olympic Games in Rio





The British edition of The Mail on Sunday (the Sunday Daily Mail) reported on the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to remove all the Russian Olympic team from the 2016 Olympics, which will begin in Rio de Janeiro on 5 August.

All 387 Russian athletes will be barred from the Olympics to "show Moscow that doping is an attack on the entire sport," - the newspaper said, citing its own sources in the IOC.

The publication said that Thomas Bach (IOC President) wants "addressed the issue of the rights of the individual athletes."

Recall that on Sunday, July 24th in the Swiss city of Lausanne will host a meeting of the IOC executive committee, which will officially announce the decision on the fate of the Russian national team. World Anti-Doping Agency, based on the results of the investigation, recommended the IOC to suspend the national team of Russia from the Olympic Games in Brazil.

Previously, "News", referring to the British edition of The Times, said that after the second phase of the IOC inspection tests Russian athletes showed a positive result.

The Times also wrote that British Olympians, leaders of the world of sport and leading politicians sent to the IOC letter, which asked to suspend the Russian national team to participate in the Olympic Games 2016 to be held in Rio de Janeiro, for "flagrant doping system in the country ".

Earlier, the IOC announced that 45 new cases of doping were detected in athletes who took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 in Beijing and London.

The total number of athletes whose doping tests were positive on the results of the first and second rechecking reached 98. The second wave has identified 45 positive results, 30 of them - the athletes participating in the Olympic Games 2008, 15 - to the Beijing 2012 Olympics.



No names of the IOC did not name, but noted that 23 of the 30 unfair participants of the Games in London, gained Olympic medals. All offenders excluded from participation in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

As the head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Alexander Zhukov, the organization has not received notification of the positive test of Russian athletes to the Olympics in 2008 and 2012.

On Monday in Toronto it published a report of the commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which states that the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service, the Center athletic training teams of Russia and Moscow anti-doping laboratory were involved in the scheme of substitution of samples of Russian athletes.

The IOC has asked the Federation of winter sports to suspend preparations for the competition, which were to be held in Russia. In addition, the IOC offered federations to impose sanctions on the Russian Federation of winter sports in the case of their involvement in the use of doping cases at the Olympic Games in Sochi.

The organization also reported that initiates the re-analysis of samples from Russian athletes home Olympics.



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