CP NewsAlert: Russian weightlifters banned from Rio Olympics for doping

The Russian weightlifting team has been banned from competing in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics due to doping offenses.

The executive board meeting was pushed back so IOC president Thomas Bach could attend the delayed inauguration of a Rio metro line which will link the Barra Olympic zone to the rest of Rio.

Australian Olympic team members returned to their building at the Rio Olympic Athletes Village after smoke from a small fire in the basement prompted an evacuation.

The panel will examine each case individually and make the “final decision” before Friday, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said late on Saturday.

Three cyclists have brought to 111 the list of Russian athletes banned from the Rio Olympic Games in the wake of damning revelations on state-run doping.

World Rowings approval process left just six rowers eligible to compete for Rio, meaning Russian Federation could only compete in one event, the mens four, and meant reserve crews from around the world have rushed to Brazil to compete.

“As of this morning I can say that we will represent 29 disciplines out of 34, with 266 people”, minister Vitaly Mutko said in an interview with sports channel Match-TV.

Russians hoping to compete in the boxing, golf, gymnastics, handball and taekwondo are still waiting to hear from the respective federations on whether they will be banned or not.

The appeal by Morozov to CAS could hold up the final figure further.

“The (IOC) decision has resulted in a deluge of requests to provide information to the IFs (international federations); Russian national federations; the Russian Olympic Committee; the Russian Paralympic Committee and individual Russian athletes”.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) banned all eight Russian contenders – five men and three women – entered for Rio.

Athletics was the first sport touched by the doping controversy. Believe it or not, but Russia’s entire weightlifting team banned from Rio Olympics 2016.

Until now, he said, the focus of his investigation was to look into evidence of a “state-dictated program which used the Moscow and Sochi laboratories to cover up doping”. F our more swimmers were withdrawn from the team by the Russian Olympic Committee as they had previously served doping bans.

She failed to qualify for her favorite race, the 200 meters, and will not have a chance to defend her Olympic title at that distance.